Expertise
Areas of practice
My entrepreneur mind has always wanted to create something, for someone, and for some price. This creative mind of mine will always find ways to create products, even impossible ones.
Business and Entrepreneurship wasn't formally in my year 1 curriculum, but I jumped into the TU/e contest with friends from Electrical Engineering to develop a LiDAR-based landslide prediction concept. The contest itself taught me how to build a business plan and think about investor positioning through its workshop track, and one coach gave me feedback I valued enough to plan returning to him with something more developed.
In year 2 that contest project matured into PRISM, and my role shifted toward also handling business-oriented aspects on top of the technical work. In parallel I've been structuring my own startup with a Bulgarian cofounder, focused on modular peripherals. The legal vehicle is an Estonian OÜ, planned with appropriate care: open the company now, extract nothing for several years while reinvesting startup revenue, then genuinely relocate to Estonia post-graduation after my master degree. Alongside this I've navigated my actual current tax obligations across Belgian residency and Dutch employment as a non-resident taxpayer, which has been useful practical exposure to how cross-border business operates in the EU.
The team lead role at Picnic also lands here for me, not just in collaboration. I went through a competitive interview process for the team-lead position and am in the eight-week training period now. Day-to-day this is real operations management: priority order across different scopes; pulling staff between areas based on demand; chain of command experiences and what a mistake can create to the stake of the work. It's the closest thing to running a small operational unit I've done so far.
Looking forward: register the Estonian OÜ legally with my cofounder, continue PRISM through the TU/e contest, and move toward a first paying customer for the keyboard product.