Jens Desmet

Jens Desmet is the owner and founder of booku, and is based in Brugge. He worked as a software engineer at bookU between September 2021 and October 2023.

He founded DSMT vof, which he ran from January 2019 to October 2023, and he was the proprietor of Jens Desmet Fotografie from October 2013 to October 2023. From January 2018 to October 2023 he was a software engineer at Cegeka, having previously held the same role at onepoint Belgium North from November 2015 to December 2018 and at the Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Sociaal Wonen (VMSW) from November 2015 to December 2017.

Between February 2013 and October 2015 he was a Microsoft software engineer at Continuum Consulting nv and a .NET developer at Securex. He was a .NET developer at Infohos Services from January 2011 to February 2013, and at MESware from February 2009, first as an intern and then as a software developer, until January 2011.

Desmet studied Multimedia & Communication Technology at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, completing a bachelor's degree in 2009, after studying industrial sciences at VTI Tielt.