Michael Van Diest
United States, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorMichael Van Diest is a founder and engineering executive with 25+ years of experience building scalable SaaS, healthcare, and marketing technology platforms that serve thousands of businesses. He has led end-to-end technical strategy and delivery—designing cloud-native architectures on AWS and GCP, integrating AI to improve CX and decision-making, and launching full-stack product transformations under tight deadlines. At PowerChord he rose from senior engineer to SVP of Engineering, owning architecture, quality, and scalability across key client systems. Now leading Movendy, he helps product-led teams move faster through on-demand CTO leadership, AI integration, and pragmatic platform engineering. He’s known for reducing technical friction while creating autonomous, high-performing teams that balance speed with clear direction. Outside executive roles he still brings hands-on technical depth—comfortable shifting between strategy, architecture, and code to drive measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (72)
full-stack10
vue10
nuxt10
vue-framework9
terraform9
bootstrap9
bootstrap-components9
react9
csr9
static-site-generator9
graph9
javascript8
react-components8
hybrid8
server-rendering8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
powerchordlabs/forte-api
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:21 releases, 80 commits, 14 PRs in 10 months
apiapi-wrapperforterestfluent
powerchordinc/google_ga360
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
bigquerydata-exportexportsample-data
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