Mike
Veerman

CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪

Mike is a seasoned software architect turned seasoned engineering manager

Building software products is a tricky balancing act and Mike loves helping teams get better at it. He's allergic to paint-by-numbers-Agile and believes the right process has to be tailor-made for each company.

Which is the coolest country you ever visited?
Definitely Iceland! Or maybe Romania...? Or Indonesia? Antwerp?

Water or coffee?
Hard to give up one or the other, so let's meet in the middle and settle on an Americano?

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About Mike

  • Base: Antwerp (BE)

  • Studies: Bachelor in Software engineering

  • Passions: rock climbing, travelling, amateur craft beer brewing

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Expertises

  • Technical leadership

  • High performance teams

  • Writing

  • Coaching

  • Software Architecture

  • Keeping things simple

Articles by Mike

🌶️ SaaS startups should never use microservices. Like, never-ever.

Ideas and insights

Application and data architecture

Infrastructure and hosting

Many SaaS startups over-engineer their architecture with microservices. Here's why that's usually a costly mistake—and what to do instead.

How to stop depending on that one developer

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Some of Mike's colleagues

Alexandros

Software engineer
from South Africa 🇿🇦

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Dimitri

Partner
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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Christophe

CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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Roduan

Software engineer
from Syria 🇸🇾

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Emma

Software engineer
from France 🇫🇷

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Tim

COO
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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Charlotte

Software engineer
from South Africa 🇿🇦

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Jonas

Software engineer
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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Michał

Software engineer
from Poland 🇵🇱

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