Summary
Laurent De Marez is a Head of Engineering based in Brussels with 12 years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently leading engineering at Gnosis Pay. He blends product-focused startup experience as a two-time co-founder with deep operational knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and AWS, having scaled device management systems and distributed services in production. Laurent moves comfortably between full-stack development and cloud-native ops, shipping prototypes quickly (weeks-to-live in past projects) and managing remote teams and backlogs. His background includes staff engineering roles in web3 and building MDM platforms that supported 200,000 devices, showing an ability to deliver at scale and across domains. He holds a high-honors BASc in Computer Science and brings a decade-plus hobbyist coding curiosity that fuels experimentation beyond his day job. Colleagues would describe him as an entrepreneurial engineer who pairs rapid prototyping instincts with robust infrastructure discipline.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IT Management, IT Management at Burgerschool Roeselare
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, High honors, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, High honors at Erasmushogeschool Brussel
Dutch, English, French