Guy Rombaut is a serial tech entrepreneur and seasoned CTO with 11+ years building high-performing, cross-disciplinary engineering organizations and cloud-native architectures. He has led rapid scale-ups—from early-stage startups to Bitvavo’s 500-person R&D organization—designing event-driven systems, Kafka streaming pipelines and Kubernetes platforms that process billions of trading events. A pragmatic architect and lean/Agile coach, he repeatedly drives post-merger integrations, platform consolidations and API monetization while fostering autonomous squads. He publishes and speaks widely on IoT and security, blockchain, and software architecture, and has a research background creating DSLs that synthesize databases from formal models. Based in Amsterdam, he combines hands-on engineering fluency with investor and founder instincts, and — less obvious — holds a pilot’s license, reflecting a methodical, systems-oriented mindset.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Executive Leadership, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Executive Leadership at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
MBA (Exchange), MBA (Exchange) at Esade
Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Amsterdam
Bachelor's degree, Interdisciplinary Studies: Tech & Business Administration, Bachelor's degree, Interdisciplinary Studies: Tech & Business Administration at University of Haifa
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