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Mathias Dewelde

Mathias Dewelde

Senior Technology Leader

Experienced technology leader with a proven track record of driving innovation and delivering results. Proficient in managing and leading diverse engineering teams through periods of growth and change.

Skilled in product engineering, building teams and fostering a customer-centric approach. Strong technical background and recognized for successfully spearheading major projects such as platform migrations, reorganizations, and proprietary platform developments.

  • Region:Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
  • Freelance:Not available
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Selection of realised projects

Led the migration of technology teams into the group structure

  • Moving Data Engineering, Software engineering, Internal IT, Site Reliability Engineering & Architecture to the group structure.
  • Successfully transitioned +/- 80 employees with a 95% success rate.

Keeping the lights on of an end-of-life platform during growth

  • Leading the technology team while the business tripled its monthly active users in just 1.5 years, all without making any investments in hardware for the EOL platform
  • Setup of platform team searching and improving bottlenecks
  • Instilled a mindset amongst product engineering to efficiently utilise the available resources

Reorganised a traditional software factory into a product oriented product engineering teams setup

  • Closed the bridge between product, design, research &engineering
  • Introduced new ways of working to become more predictable and constant in delivery
  • Instilled a mindset of working with hypothesis and data driven experiments

Led the build of a proprietary gambling platform

  • Led the design & execution
  • 7 architects & +-/ 110 engineers, analists & managers
  • Multi currency, multi region, multi language platform capabilities
  • Certified by dutch authorities after only 6 months of development

Setup of offshore & nearshore working models

  • Successfully established a working model with offshore parties in India (TCS & Nagarro)
  • Successfully established an extended team model with nearshore party in Ukraine (Ciklum)