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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Fitness for purpose: taking risks with quality

Team and leadership

Ideas and insights

When product teams obsess over perfect quality, they risk standing still, but by embracing a 'fit for purpose' mindset and planning for instability, they can move faster and smarter.

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These questions will be answered after technical due diligence

Audits and due diligence

Ideas and insights

Code quality and design

Investing without technical due diligence is like buying a used car without opening the bonnet. This article demystifies the audit process, shares what red flags we look for, and explains why investors should care deeply about code, processes and product.

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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

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Building a customer support machine: a pragmatic approach for startups

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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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