Lode Kennes is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Belgium with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack and mobile products. He has led engineering teams and projects across .NET, React/React Native, Azure and DevOps, shipping consumer apps, integration platforms and enterprise systems. As a serial founder and venture owner, he combines product instinct with delivery discipline—having co-founded and exited an e-commerce startup and later launched AI-focused ventures to help companies operationalize large language models. His open-source contributions include improving TypeScript typings for a popular React Native parallax scroll view, reflecting attention to developer experience and front-end ergonomics. Lode often bridges strategy and execution: designing architectures, running releases to app stores, and integrating AI with company data to create tailored, high-impact solutions. He’s driven to scale his company further and release production-grade software under his own banner.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
A ScrollView-like component with parallax and sticky header support.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lode primarily focused on defining and modifying TypeScript types for a React Native parallax scroll view component. Their work involved creating and updating the `index.d.ts` file to properly declare component properties, interfaces, and exports. The contributions add more types, and extra properties and render functions to improve the component's usability.
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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