Gertjan De Wilde
Co-founder & CEO at Apideck
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolGertjan De Wilde is a founder-led CEO with a decade of experience building and scaling API-first SaaS platforms, currently steering Apideck to help companies standardize integrations and platform strategy. He blends hands-on product and engineering instincts with executive leadership, previously founding and leading Beatswitch through its growth phase. Comfortable across the full stack, Gertjan has contributed front-end UX improvements and SEO-savvy features to open-source projects like a GDPR checklist, showing attention to user experience and compliance. Based in Antwerp, he pairs an autodidactic approach with formal IT studies, and brings a practical talent for operations, strategic partnerships, and recruiting technical teams. Colleagues know him for turning complex integration challenges into reusable, developer-friendly tooling that accelerates go-to-market for SaaS vendors.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Katholieke Hogeschool MechelenBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Katholieke Hogeschool LeuvenTopsportschool - Redingenhof LeuvenAutodidact
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
privacy10
javascript10
gdpr10
react10
gatsby10
debugging6
fatalerror6
zend-framework6
bootstrapping6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
privacyradius/gdpr-checklist
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
The GDPR Checklist
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 19 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gertjan made significant contributions to the frontend development of the project, implementing UI components and styling. They added features like expandable sections, checkboxes, and the integration of a cookie consent banner. The user also focused on updating the styling and layout of the application, including the footer and share links. Furthermore, they updated the meta tags and OG tags to improve SEO and social media sharing.
checklistgatsbygdpr-checklistdata-protectionprivacy
privacyradius/gdpr-tracker
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
A crowdsourced directory tracking the compliance and security practices of cloud services and their subprocessors
Contributions:218 commits, 277 PRs, 348 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cloud-servicesdata-privacydata-protectionprivacysecurity
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