Lode Cools
Co-Founder & CTO at Bizzcontrol
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolLode Cools is a pragmatic technology leader and Co-Founder & CTO with a decade of experience turning engineering discipline into business value for SMEs and enterprise clients. Based in Ghent, he built Bizzcontrol to help accountants deliver proactive, entrepreneur-friendly financial advice through an all-in-one advisory platform, combining product vision with hands-on development. His background spans embedded firmware, telecoms, PKI and web frameworks, and he has led R&D at Venture Spirit where he balanced technical backlog, delivery excellence, and client-facing pre-sales. Comfortable from low-level hardware to cloud-enabled applications, he brings a rare mix of systems thinking and practical product delivery. Outside the obvious startup focus, he has deep experience operationalizing PKI and test automation—skills that surface in robust, secure platform design.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Ghent University
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (93)
mvc10
ruby10
duplicate10
html10
ruby-wrapper10
rails10
google-recaptcha10
debian9
django9
sentry9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
monitor9
api8
sdk8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
piloos/power-bi
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Ruby wrapper for the Power BI API
Contributions:4 reviews, 43 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
ruby-wrapperapirubypowerpower-bi
piloos/piloos-settings
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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