Overview
Frederik Denkens is the founder of Skyscrapers, a company he started in April 2013 and which he continues to lead from Antwerp. Between January 2014 and January 2018 he was a member of the hosting expert group at FeWeb.
He founded iLibris, a managed cloud hosting business, in January 2000 and remained with it until August 2013. In the intervening years he was CTO and cofounder of Photo-Online from August 2006 to December 2012, and founder of ASPACE from September 2010 to May 2012. Earlier he worked as a support account manager at BEA Systems from 2005 to 2006 and at Sun Microsystems from 2002 to 2005, having begun as a junior support account manager at iPlanet in October 2000. His first recorded role was in pre-sales at Isabel in 2000.
He studied IT at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool from 1998 to 2000 and obtained his secondary diploma in sciences and mathematics at Koninklijk Atheneum Ekeren.
Career history
In the news
- A logical next step for Simon R., a major step for Skyscrapers: I'm proud to announce that he has taken up the role of Chief Technical & Product Officer. Our story together started almost 11 years ago, when Simon joined as a cloud engineer. Since then I've watched him grow into a technical expert with a sharp, customer-focused vision. He is someone who takes roadmap items like our new DR/BC Add-on all the way to completion, who has been the driving force behind bringing AI into our operations and ensuring the reliability of our
- AI has brought us the "SaaS is dead" mantra. But it clearly is not dead. Instead of me trying to find the right words to say why I'll quote Corey Quinn who, as always, writes it out better then I ever could: "The open source world learned previously that software is free as in puppy. We’re now learning that while vibe coding is fun, vibe maintaining sucks, and vibe maintaining someone else’s slop is just the absolute worst. There’s strong business value to having a team of people care deeply about the problem domain, have the
- AI made us worse communicators. I catch myself doing it too. The pattern: people optimize for the output. A well-structured doc. A polished post. A thorough report. Great work done, right? Well no. The person who receives it just gets overwhelmed with more content to process. The person who wrote it won't get the impact they wanted. Both sides lose. Before AI, producing something polished cost enough effort that it forced at least some thinking about why. That friction is gone now, as well as the thinking it seems. The question that
- Everyone is talking EU Sovereign Cloud. Billions are flowing into it, marketing machines are in overdrive. But as CTO, what questions should you be asking yourself? "Which EU provider should we move to?" misses the point. Do you have the freedom to choose at all? EU Cloud sovereignty is a spectrum of concerns. I break it down through the PESTLE framework and explain why your platform architecture matters more than which EU logo you pick. If sovereignty is on your radar, start with your architecture. (Thanks to Niels Van
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