Description

CTO & Engineering Leader with 20+ years building data and software systems from low-level infrastructure to product.

I believe great engineering teams move fast by being right about what to build — challenging requirements early, owning delivery end-to-end, and continuously raising the bar on skills and tooling.

I actively drive AI adoption as a force multiplier for engineering productivity, from agentic coding workflows to responsible deployment with a focus on safety and reliability.

Currently leading the technical vision at GeoPostcodes, a Belgian location data company specialising in location and geospatial data for enterprise clients.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussels (up to 50km)

GeoPostcodes
Chief Technical Officer
DIGITAL AND IT
September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
Brussels, Belgium
• ● Led a 9-person data team responsible for dataset product creation and maintenance.
• ● Recruited and onboarded 6 technical profiles.
• ● Established Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems and ticketing practices.
• ● Enhanced team methodologies and QA practices.
• ● Reduced technical debt.
• ● Introduced AI tools in the code base (Codex, Claude)
• ● Company size: €3–5M turnover; 40 employees.
AI Automation SQL GIS Change Management Technical Leadership
Riaktr,
Chief Technical Officer
DIGITAL AND IT
August 2021 - July 2024 (2 years and 11 months)
Brussels, Belgium
• ● Led engineering department across three product teams, global IT, and security.
• ● Expanded role to group-level engineering across Pakistan and India.
• ● Recruited and onboarded 13 technical profiles.
• ● Improved engineering KPIs, cleaned technical debt, and reduced cloud/SAAS costs by 56%.
• ● Involved in crisis management on IT security, people, legal, tax audits.
• ● Improved situation on IT asset management, information security, disaster recovery, backup policy.
• ● Company size: €5M turnover; Group: €25M turnover; 300 employees.
DevOps Technical Leadership Product Development Web development Big Data
Riaktr
Technical Leader
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
December 2019 - August 2021 (1 year and 8 months)
Brussels, Belgium
• ● Led 6-person Scrum team with responsibilities including development and architecture.
• ● Helped sales process as technical expert in security questionnaires
• ● Conducted technical due diligence leading to shareholder exit.
• ● Improved team predictability through statistics
• ● Managed COVID-19 disruption.
Technical Leadership Agile method DevOps Web development JavaScript