Karel Striegel is a founder and product leader with 12+ years of hands-on technical experience and over a decade building and scaling SaaS products, most recently as Co-founder and CPO of Venly. He blends deep DevOps and Linux systems background with product management, having led cross-functional teams of up to 15 people and managed budgets up to €5M to take products from ideation to adoption. Comfortable in the intersection of engineering, operations, and business, he focuses on automation, deployment, and release management to deliver measurable user and commercial value. Based in the Ghent metropolitan area, he thrives on improving team communication and execution while translating strategic vision into reliable, production-ready systems. An operator at heart, he pairs early-career infrastructure expertise with entrepreneurial product instincts to solve both technical and market-facing challenges.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information & Communication Technologies ICT, Bachelor Information & Communication Technologies ICT at Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven, Gent
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