Koen Betsens
Head Designer at Tripolar
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolKoen Betsens is a multidisciplinary design and technology leader with 11 years of professional experience and a 20-year background building commercial apps, now focused on bridging app UX with film and television screen graphics. As Head Designer at SetOps and digital props designer at Tripolar, he creates believable “fake screens,” interactive smartphone graphics and 3D-printed props for productions like Het Smelt and De Twaalf. A serial founder and former CTO, he scaled Cloudoki with sustained 40% annual growth and led product work for clients such as TUI and BNP Paribas Fortis, bringing both product strategy and hands-on execution. He also founded cleantech R&D projects at Tricryo, showing a willingness to pivot from creative tech to deep research-to-IP ventures. Based in Brussels, Koen combines craft-level visual design with deep technical fluency—an unusual mix that lets him translate film storytelling needs into functional, production-ready digital artifacts.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at HIGRO/VISO Mariakerke
English, Dutch, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
88reputation
5kreached
5answers
4questions
Github Skills (38)
javascript7
oauth2-client7
js7
html6
firebase-cloud-messaging6
firebase6
phonegap-plugin6
user-input6
php6
sdk6
parsing6
parser6
phonegap-build6
python6
sencha-touch6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cloudoki/FrontQueue
Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
laravel-queuephplaravel-packagelaraveljobs
koenbetsens/jobserver
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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