Summary
Glen Staes is an experienced software engineer and competence manager with 11 years in the field, currently shaping technical teams and delivery at PeopleWare while also serving as voorzitter of TTK Merksplas. He has deep full-stack and release engineering roots from leading the Ometa framework team and building scalable, SharePoint-integrated CRM solutions early in his career. Glen combines hands-on engineering with people leadership and quality oversight, moving between individual contributor work and coordinating competence development. His background in digital communication for a provincial sports organization highlights a knack for productizing community-facing tools like mobile apps and websites. Based in Kasterlee, Belgium, he pairs applied computer science training with practical teaching and coaching certifications, bringing both technical rigor and a collaborative, sports-oriented leadership style. An operator who still digs into implementation details, Glen is known for turning organizational needs into reliable, extensible software and processes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Specifieke Lerarenopleiding, Specifieke Lerarenopleiding at CVO Edukempen
Economie - Moderne Talen, Economie - Moderne Talen at Heilig Grafinstituut Turnhout
Bachelor Toegepaste informatica, Bachelor Toegepaste informatica at Thomas More Geel
Economie - Wiskunde (5u), Economie - Wiskunde (5u) at Sancta Maria Instituut Kasterlee
Initiator tafeltennis Initiator tafeltennis, Initiator tafeltennis Initiator tafeltennis at Vlaamse Trainersschool
English, French, German, Dutch