Pascal Laenen
Founder & Fractional CTO CPO at Laenen & Partners
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolPascal Laenen is a founder and fractional CTO/CPO with over 20 years of experience blending management consulting, enterprise architecture and hands-on product delivery to help SMEs and scale-ups grow without full-time executive overhead. He moves fluidly from boardroom strategy to codebase execution, having led digital transformation and large-scale architecture for airlines, travel groups and fintechs including Emirates, Thomas Cook and a next‑gen wealthtech platform. Pascal specialises in agentic AI and intelligent automation, fintech/wealthtech strategy, and modernising legacy systems into cloud-native architectures while keeping spend tightly aligned to business outcomes. He also advises investors on technical due diligence, surfacing hidden architectural risks and actionable remediation plans. Having worked and lived across Asia, the Middle East and Europe, he brings a tri-continental perspective that smooths regulatory and cultural complexity when scaling products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Accelerated Development Programme Business and Personal/Financial Services Marketing Operations, Accelerated Development Programme Business and Personal/Financial Services Marketing Operations at London Business Schoolgraduate Electrical and Electronics Engineering with focus om Micro Processors, graduate Electrical and Electronics Engineering with focus om Micro Processors at Katholieke Hogeschool LimburgVTI Beringen
English, Dutch, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
parser7
rest-api6
backend6
react6
nodejs6
resolver6
presto6
amazon-s36
bus6
palette6
validation6
webpack6
trino6
nextjs6
minio6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
plaenen/code-sample
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Sample NodeJs Project
Contributions:47 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 month
javascriptexpressnodejsmongodbnode
numo-labs/sdk
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 31 pushes in 26 days
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