Patrice Krakow
Lead Architect at ING
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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SeniorPatrice Krakow is a lead architect with 11+ years building enterprise integration and API platforms, currently steering the global API Platform at ING from Brussels. He blends deep SOA and ESB experience (TIBCO) with practical product-minded architecture, ensuring APIs evolve without burdening consumers. A founder-turned-enterprise leader, he helped launch Eligible’s API network connecting to 1,000+ health payers, showing both startup grit and large-bank delivery. Patrice is passionate about continuous learning and pragmatic design, often advocating for backward-compatible API versioning strategies. His career spans hands-on engineering roles since the late 1990s through strategic architecture leadership, giving him rare perspective across integration, operations, and platform convergence. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful technologist who prioritizes impact over novelty while driving large-scale digitization.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
Github Skills (130)
command-line-interface10
swagger10
azure-cli10
oas10
infrastructure10
dx10
specification10
microservices10
openapi10
api10
rest10
azure10
versioning10
kubernetes10
go10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
patricekrakow/therapy
May 2017 - Apr 2020
I am writing code during the night as a therapy of what I see during the day ;-)
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
therapydaynight
patricekrakow/patricekrakow.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:177 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reactweb-application
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