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Dieter Van Thienen

CTO @ The Hazard Factory
East Flanders, Belgium

Technology leader and hands-on engineer who turns ideas into secure, scalable products. I lead teams and projects end-to-end, align stakeholders across business and engineering, guide implementation and improve delivery through DevOps.

Top roles

Manager / Director2 - 5 years
Team Leader5 - 10 years

Miscellaneous

DevOps
GDPR
IT Project Management
IT Service Management
Project Management
UX/Usability
ITIL
Entity Framework
Critical thinking
SEO

Systems

Hardware
Mac OS
MySQL / MariaDB
SharePoint
Windows
Windows Server
Active Directory / Windows Server
Apache HTTP Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft 365 / Office 365

Back-end

SQL
.NET
.NET Core
Artificial intelligence
Mobile devices
PHP
Android
iOS

Front-end

JavaScript
Angular / AngularJS
HTML
HTML 5
Node.js
TypeScript

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Microsoft Dynamics 365
MS Exchange Server
M365

Security

Cryptography
Cybersecurity

Cloud

Cloud

Agile

Agile/Scrum

Business Intelligence

Microsoft BI

CRM

CRM

IDE

Visual Studio

Network/Telecom

Infrastructure

Modeling Languages

Modeling Languages

Enterprise Tools

Waterfall

Sales

Communication skills
Language
Native Dutch
Dutch
Native
English
Fluent
French
Good
German
Average
Norwegian
Average
Work experience
Since 2014
CTO @ The Hazard Factory
01 January 2024 - 01 September 2025

Shaped and executed technology vision for VR safety training. Lead multidisciplinary teams, refine specs with product, manage the lifecycle and drive process automation to improve efficiency, quality and delivery.

CTO @ Invitedesk
01 January 2022 - 01 January 2024

Led technology strategy and teams, collaborating with product and design to deliver software. Oversaw the SDLC, kept pace with new tech and ensured security, scalability and performance across the stack.

Head of IT @ Invitedesk
01 April 2018 - 01 January 2022

Owned technology infrastructure and digital systems. Managed engineers, set IT policies and supported the organisation, working cross-functionally to address challenges and keep operations effective.

Founder & Technical Lead @ Strategic Water
01 April 2017 - 01 April 2018

Co-founded a data-driven cleantech start-up and acted as de facto CTO. Brought ML and analytics to the water sector to optimise facilities and costs; selected for Web Summit Alpha.

Researcher & Lecturer @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01 September 2014 - 01 April 2017

Researcher in Computer Science on an R&D project; built web prototypes and visualisations, integrated user research and taught UX, UI and algorithms. Won the KES-SEEL Best Paper Award.

Education experience
Since 2007
Computer Science @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel
01 September 2010 - 30 June 2014

Master of Science in Computer Science, Burgerlijk Ingenieur (ir.), Magna cum laude

Applied Informatics @ Hogeschool Gent
01 September 2007 - 30 June 2010

Bachelor of Applied Informatics, Magna cum laude

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