Summary
Koen Handekyn is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13+ years leading technology and product teams, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Allcrux and launching multiple ventures in smart tagging and KYC. He combines a magna cum laude Computer Science degree from UGent and an MBA from Vlerick with deep experience in cloud/distributed architectures, R&D, near-shoring and compliance (ISO/ISAE). Koen has a proven track record scaling product platforms at UnifiedPost—shaping document, invoice and e-identity services—and building an R&D center that bridged academic research and production-grade multi-tenant systems. He focuses now on applied AI (LLMs) and optimisation for invoicing, manufacturing, HR and legal automation, bringing both strategic product vision and hands-on engineering. Known as a pragmatic recruiter and collaborator, he also invests via Growceanu, blending technical leadership with early-stage investor insight.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Computer Sciences, magna cum laude (grote onderscheiding), Engineer's Degree, Computer Sciences, magna cum laude (grote onderscheiding) at Universiteit Gent
postgraduate, bedrijfskunde (business administration), postgraduate, bedrijfskunde (business administration) at Vlerick Business School
English, French, German, Dutch