Pieter Buteneers
Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Emma Legal
Destelbergen, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter Buteneers is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and scaling engineering teams, currently leading Emma Legal — an M&A platform that applies context-aware AI for cross-border legal due diligence. He blends deep academic roots in machine learning and signal processing (PhD and post-doc work on seizure detection) with hands-on startup execution, having co-founded and grown companies to meaningful ARR. Pieter has steered ML strategy and innovation teams at Sinch and led product and engineering as CTO at Chatlayer.ai, demonstrating a track record of turning research into production systems. As a mentor, conference curator, and advisor, he trains executives and developers on practical ML adoption and speaks regularly at industry events. He pairs technical leadership with an entrepreneurial MBA, enabling him to navigate both product-market fit and scalable engineering. An often-overlooked strength is his history of applying ML to mission-critical, real-world problems—from healthcare monitoring to legal automation—bringing a pragmatic, multidisciplinary perspective to AI productization.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Latin and Mathematics, High School Latin and Mathematics at Sint Aluysius ZepperenMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneural M.B.A. (eMBA), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneural M.B.A. (eMBA) at Flanders Business School - FBSMaster of Science (MSc) Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Engineering at Ghent UniversityHigh School Mathematics and Science, High School Mathematics and Science at OLVH Tongeren
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
miner7
mining7
tensorflow7
bert7
transformer7
language-model6
transformers6
jax5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pbutenee/ml-tutorial
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 83 pushes in 6 years 1 month
pbutenee/pbutenee.github.io
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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