Summary
Brian Roels is a pragmatic software leader and Chapter Lead for AI/ML and Frontend at CHILI Publish with six years of hands-on experience shipping complex React and TypeScript products. He combines people-first leadership—recruiting, coaching, and building chapter capabilities—with technical ownership as a component owner shaping mid-term product roadmaps and POCs for the GraFx Platform and Studio. His background spans full-stack development, custom React Native experiences, and consultancy work, giving him a rare blend of front-end craftsmanship and product-minded systems thinking. Based in Aalst, Belgium, Brian is known for driving adoption of innovative tooling (including AI) while actively advising on cross-departmental risk and cost trade-offs. An early career in robotics UI and diverse freelance projects hints at a practical curiosity for solving niche problems with elegant client-side logic.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electronica-ICT, Bachelor, Electronica-ICT at Hogeschool Odisee
Informaticabeheer, Informaticabeheer at Sint Maarten Instituut
English, French, Dutch