Andreas
Creten

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CEO & Founding Partner
from Belgium

Co-founder and honorary member of the positive ADHD movement. He codes, takes decisions, arranges deals and processes his emails faster than a lightning bolt

He seems to have been granted more than 24 hours in one day, but nobody knows just who he bribed for that. If he keeps on doing all those nice things for madewithlove, nobody will be complaining.

If you could go back in history, what event would you love to experience?
Not sure, maybe the first computer to computer communications.

Any favourite quotes?
Work hard, stay positive and get up early. It's the best part of the day. (George Allen, Sr.)

madewithlove software engineers

madewithlove software engineers

About Andreas

Base: Leuven (BE)
Studies: Informatics, PXL Hasselt & Management, VUB Brussel
Passions: skiing, sailing, woodworking, pizza making

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madewithlove software engineers

Expertises

PHP
Stakeholder Management
Wordpress
Leadership
Product Management

Articles by Andreas

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The Importance of Small Details for Diversity and Inclusion

Sometimes, the most minor details can make the most significant impact. As an established company based in Belgium, we have always embraced our madewithlove.be domain name, despite our global reach. But a revelation during an annual retreat discussion on diversity changed everything.

Why you should code your infrastructure

Infrastructure and hosting

Have trouble documenting your infrastructure? Infrastructure as code might be the solution you are looking for.

Taking PHP Seriously

Code quality and design

Once considered a dying programming language, PHP has undergone a massive transformation in recent years, evolving into a powerful and modern web development tool.

Why is operational documentation more important than you think

A story on remote audits

Why exit interviews are valuable

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Pulse: Episode 10 – Employee lifetime value with Leslie Carr

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Logging non-Laravel queries to Telescope

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Ten years of testing htaccess rewrite rules

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Smooth Sailing

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Ask Me Anything with our CEO on working remote (from home)

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Does code need to be perfect?

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My first day at madewithlove and a strange white box

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Why is everybody wearing headphones?

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Remote versus offshoring in software development

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madewithlove retreat in Girona

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JSday Maceio 2015 recap

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Using illuminate/config v5 outside of Laravel

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Learn hard, play hard #PHPBenelux2015

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WP-CLI: WordPress Command Line Tools

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Updated htaccess tester: referrer support

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Simple htaccess tester

Some of Andreas's colleagues

Machine

Automation Engineer
from Earth (for now)

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Picture of Machine User

Simone

Hiring Manager
from France

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Picture of Simone Eret

Tim

COO
from Belgium

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Picture of Tim Sterkens

Jonas

CTO in residence
from Belgium

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Picture of Jonas Van Schoote

Emma

Software Engineer
from France

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Picture of Emma Fabre

Steve

CTO in residence
from Croatia

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Picture of Steve Tauber

Novruz

Software Engineer
from Türkiye

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Picture of Novruz Bayramberdiyev

Jonas

Software Engineer
from Belgium

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Picture of Jonas Drieghe

Stef

Software Engineer
from Belgium

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Picture of Stef Trenson

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