Laurent Van Winckel
Founding Partner at Boot Ventures
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolLaurent Van Winckel is a pragmatic founding partner and software engineer with 12+ years of experience building and launching startups and production web platforms from Brussels. He founded Boot Ventures to rapidly prototype and validate product ideas, and has previously co-founded an e-commerce retailer (Storanza) and a development agency (Spotia), demonstrating both technical and commercial instincts. Comfortable across the full stack, Laurent has deep PHP/Laravel and frontend experience (React, Ember), plus devops proficiency with Docker, Chef/Puppet, and infrastructure like Nginx and HAProxy. He has applied his skills in diverse environments—from legacy maintenance to research-driven sustainability work at imec, where he helped build a virtual fab platform for quantifying IC manufacturing footprints. Trained in applied informatics and data science, he also explores machine learning and scientific tooling, bringing a data-informed approach to product decisions. Colleagues value his roll-up-your-sleeves versatility: he’ll switch roles between developer, DevOps, and product lead to get things shipped.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Applied Informatics Software & Database development, Bachelor in Applied Informatics Software & Database development at Hogeschool-Universiteit BrusselBusiness Engineering, Business Engineering at Vrije Universiteit BrusselAI / Data science, AI / Data science at BeCode
English, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (72)
web-application10
laravel10
interactive-brokers10
php10
twsapi9
trading9
authentication9
expressive9
scraper9
ibapi9
foundation9
integrate9
application-framework9
api8
jwt8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Laurentvw/scrapher
Mar 2014 - Mar 2020
A web scraper for PHP to easily extract data from web pages
Contributions:10 releases, 62 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years
phpweb-scraperscrapingweb-scrapingextract-data
Laurentvw/tenancy
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Automatic multi-tenancy for Laravel. No code changes needed.
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
no-codephptenancymulti-tenantmulti-tenancy
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