Pascal Knapen
CTO at Dataminded
Diest, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPascal Knapen is a people-first CTO with nine years of formal experience leading engineering teams and nearly two decades in software roles, currently steering technology at Dataminded. He specializes in turning data into actionable insight, helping organizations and products make decisions grounded in measurable outcomes rather than tech for tech’s sake. His background spans hands-on engineering and technical leadership at McKinsey Digital Labs and McKinsey Solutions, where he translated complex business needs into practical, decision-driving software. Pascal combines a Master's in Computer and Information Sciences with a pragmatic focus on incentives and team dynamics to build high-performing, collaborative teams. He’s as comfortable coaching engineers as he is shaping product strategy, believing the best technology emerges from motivated people and clear data. Based in Diest, Belgium, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, strategic thinking, and a persistent emphasis on measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Master's degree Computer and Information Sciences General at Hasselt UniversitySales Funnel Training
English, French
Github Skills (33)
scheduler9
python8
automation8
apply8
apache8
machine-learning8
data-science8
monitor8
data-engineering7
workflow-engine7
etl7
mlops7
data-pipelines7
data-lake7
orchestration7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
datamindedbe/nifi-dataminded-bundle
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
datamindedbe/lighthouse
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
Lighthouse is a library for data lakes built on top of Apache Spark. It provides high-level APIs in Scala to streamline data pipelines and apply best practices.
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years
streamlinehigh-levelapacheapplyspark
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