Summary
Tom Gijselinck is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams across startups and enterprise environments. Currently at BRG after leading a 33-engineer Agile Release Train and multiple post-Covid team expansions at Brussels Airport Company, he blends hands-on product engineering with operational rigor around DevOps, incident management, and security risk mitigation. As an early hire at Elimity he shipped production features—designing a graph query language and performance-focused access tooling—that turned multi-week analyses into seconds, demonstrating a bias for pragmatic automation and user enablement. He pairs technical depth (Go, TypeScript, Python, CI/CD) with formal leadership training from Harvard Business School Online, and has experience owning hiring, job design, and cross-functional coordination. Based in Washington, DC, Tom is as comfortable architecting access control and data tooling as he is coaching teams through fast growth and operationalizing reliability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering Computer science, Master of Science in Engineering Computer science at KU Leuven
Latijn-Wetenschappen, Latijn-Wetenschappen at Sint-Lievenscollege Antwerpen
Other; Certificate in Leadership Principles, Other; Certificate in Leadership Principles at Harvard Business School Online
Dutch, English, French