Pieterjan Vandaele
VP, Global Head Of Financial Partnerships at Circle
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolPieterjan Vandaele is an entrepreneurial fintech and product leader with 12 years of international experience building payments infrastructure, developer-facing platforms, and global financial partnerships from Singapore. Currently VP, Global Head of Financial Partnerships at Circle, he grew through product and BD roles at Stripe and Paidy and founded Japan-focused payments startup Smartpay, combining operator-level product delivery with go-to-market execution. He pairs hands-on engineering and DevOps experience—contributing to open-source projects like the widely used Scala JSON library circe and Ansible roles for PostgreSQL—with strategic deal-making evidenced by landing major regional accounts. Comfortable scaling teams across cultures, Pieterjan brings technical depth (Scala, distributed systems, Kubernetes) to commercial negotiations around fiat access, reserve management, and local payment rails. A bias-for-action operator, he often bridges product, engineering and partnerships to turn complex regulatory and operational requirements into live, revenue-generating services.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering (MScEng.) Civil & Biomedical Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering (MScEng.) Civil & Biomedical Engineering at Ghent UniversityInternational Management, International Management at CEU Executive MBAMBA General Management, MBA General Management at Vlerick Business SchoolSummer Course Sustainability, Summer Course Sustainability at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Dutch, English, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (35)
json10
postgresql10
system-configuration10
typeclass10
nix10
encoder10
testing10
configuration-management10
html-template10
decode10
python-templates10
scala10
darwin10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ANXS/postgresql
Mar 2014 - May 2015
Fairly full featured Ansible role for Postgresql.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 66 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Pieterjan's contributions center on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for a PostgreSQL database using Ansible. They updated the `postgresql.conf` template, fixed bugs, and added configurations for Monit supervision. The user also made changes to the `pg_hba.conf` file, indicating a focus on security and access control. These commits showcase a DevOps-centric approach to automating and managing database deployments and monitoring.
full-featuredansibleansible-rolepostgresqlrole
nix-darwin/nix-darwin
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
nix modules for darwin
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Pieterjan primarily contributed to the configuration and testing of system defaults within the Nix-Darwin environment. Their work involved adding options for system defaults, including dock settings and NSGlobalDomain configurations. They also added and updated tests to validate the correct application of these system settings. Furthermore, the user implemented tests to verify networking configurations within the system.
nixoshome-managerlaunchddarwinnix-modules
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