Frank Baele
Co-Founder at NextSDS
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Baele is a seasoned data engineer and entrepreneur with 17 years of hands-on experience building data architectures, integrations, and end-to-end digital solutions from Ghent, Belgium. As co-founder of multiple ventures including NextSDS and Superchargr, he combines product-minded leadership with deep technical chops in Python, Java, Kafka, and Elasticsearch. His background spans revamping legacy systems, optimizing data platforms, and applied NLP work that moves models into production. Frank’s career traverses full-stack and frontend roles early on, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both UX and backend scalability. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of startup agility and production-grade engineering, often translating business metrics into reliable data pipelines. Outside core data work, his ongoing pattern of founding diverse projects suggests a knack for spotting real-world product opportunities and shipping them quickly.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Commercial sciences, Information Technology, Master Commercial sciences, Information Technology at HOGENT
Github Skills (121)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
frankbaele/mindustry
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Mindustry server docker
Contributions:28 releases, 371607 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 1 month
docker
frankbaele/doorwhisperer
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:168 pushes, 3 branches in 26 days
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