Dries Defever
Co-CEO Erica Garden BV
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolDries Defever is a hands-on operations and sales leader with 15 years of experience who now co-runs Erica Garden BV, blending family-rooted entrepreneurship with formal training in electromechanical engineering. He drives day-to-day order fulfillment and continuous process improvements across physical and online channels, while also taking strategic responsibilities as Co-CEO. His background includes supply-chain and first-line management roles at Anheuser-Busch InBev, giving him practical expertise in production, logistics, and team leadership. Dries combines technical rigor from his M.Sc. with strong customer-facing skills developed over years working in the family business and youth leadership roles. Comfortable leading under pressure and across cultures (including an engineering internship in China), he’s known for pragmatic problem-solving and improving operational workflows. Beyond operations, he teaches and communicates complex data-analysis topics, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and commercial instinct.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electromechanical Engineering - Mechanical Construction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electromechanical Engineering - Mechanical Construction at Ghent University
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (18)
latexmk7
latex7
unicode6
beamer6
r6
julia5
letter5
tex5
to-do5
vim-plugin4
vim4
typesetting3
debugging3
neovim3
intel3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cran/bayesQR
Mar 2011 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 commits in 5 years 11 months
driesbenoit/ugent-letter
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Ghent University letter class for writing professional documents in LaTeX
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 10 pushes in 1 day
ghentprofessionaltypesettingghent-universityletter
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