Trunk-based De Pauw
Founder at ThinkingLabs
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolTrunk-based De Pauw is a founder and seasoned continuous delivery coach with 11+ years of experience helping organisations speed up delivery, improve quality and reduce engineer burnout. Through ThinkingLabs and Way of Thinking he has driven dramatic improvements—turning bi-annual releases into fortnightly deployments in under four months—and also delivers substantial AWS cost savings. He blends hands-on technical work (CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, cloud resilience) with behavioural coaching across teams of up to 150 people, and frequently performs technical due diligences for investors. Based in Ghent, Belgium, Thierry pairs an engineering background in electromecanical systems with deep enterprise experience at SWIFT, BNP Paribas Fortis and others, making him equally effective at architecture, operations and people change. An occasional international speaker, he has a pragmatic knack for reducing cycle time from weeks to days while preserving stability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Electromecanical Engineering minor in production management, Master of Science in Electromecanical Engineering minor in production management at Ghent University
French, Dutch, English
Github Skills (72)
codefreeze10
hugo10
trunk10
hexagonal-architecture10
sink10
google-sheets10
ports-and-adapters10
streaming10
toggl10
confluent10
timesheet10
kafka-connector10
google-sheet10
javascript9
iam-policy9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tdpauw/tbd
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Source for TrunkBasedDevelopment.com ☛
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 11 months
thinkinglabs/thinkinglabs.github.io
Sep 2015 - Mar 2025
The website of ThinkingLabs
Contributions:1 review, 22 PRs, 528 pushes in 9 years 7 months
jekyll
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