Mike
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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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Making progress without a technical leader

Ideas and insights

Roles and responsibilities

Startups without a technical co-founder can still build great products, but only if they avoid the usual traps of overengineering, needless infrastructure, and late developer involvement.

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Pricing strategies in the era of AI: why hourly billing no longer works

Ideas and insights

AI tools are changing how agencies work and how they should bill. Fewer hours, faster results, and ballooning token costs are reshaping agency economics. We dive into what comes next, and why value pricing might be the way forward.

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Building a customer support machine: a pragmatic approach for startups

Customer facing documentation

Team and leadership

When customer support becomes a blocker for engineering progress, it’s time to build more than just your product—you need to build your support infrastructure. This article explains how to scale support before chaos kills your velocity.

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

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Why you shouldn't let customers pay for features

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How to start growing talent in-house

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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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