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Mike
Veerman

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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

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🌶️ 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.

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Why you shouldn't let customers pay for features

Ideas and insights

Issues and tasks

Selling bespoke features to customers might seem profitable, but it changes your SaaS business model. Instead of a scalable product, you become a service provider, stuck maintaining one-off features. Learn why this approach is risky and how to build for long-term success.

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How to start growing talent in-house

Ideas and insights

Team and leadership

Startups thrive on rapid growth, but when it comes to scaling talent, they often hit a wall. Enterprise-style feedback systems sound great—until they become a productivity sink. So how can you build structured talent development without overcomplicating things?

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How to stop depending on that one developer

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Do we even need a moat?

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Scaling the A team

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Pragmatic ways of keeping documentation up to date

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Infrastructure is a business decision

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Backups. How much is enough?

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Five documents every startup should have

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Don't become a code review bottleneck

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How to communicate a roadmap to VCs and investors

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CTO sounding board: our new leadership mentoring service for SaaS CTOs and tech leaders

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What to do when your team can't deploy continuously?

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Why your startup doesn't need autoscaling

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How AI will replace pair programming

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ChatGPT and the future of software specs

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Alexandros

Software engineer
from South Africa 🇿🇦

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Geoffrey

Software engineer
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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William

CTO in residence
from Netherlands 🇳🇱

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Charlotte

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Andreas

CEO & Founding Partner
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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Christophe

CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪

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Peter

Software engineer
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