Summary
Pieter Sartain is a pragmatic engineering leader and CTO with 11 years of commercial experience and a strong academic background in embedded systems and opto-electronic debugging. He combines systems engineering and software architecture expertise with hands-on programming across web, client, server and embedded stacks, and a track record of turning research prototypes into production tooling. Pieter has led and scaled engineering organisations—improving delivery reliability, introducing product-area ownership, and building cloud-native build and deployment platforms using Docker, GCP and Kubernetes. He cares as much about mission and customer delight as about technology, often getting involved early in solution design and following through to implementation. Known for pragmatic process change (agile coaching, documentation, roles) and hiring/mentoring talent, he pairs technical depth with operational discipline to deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc by Research Novel opto-electronic debug support solution, MSc by Research Novel opto-electronic debug support solution at University of Kent