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
- Next week I'll be at the WebSummit in Lisbon to feel the pulse of technology, entrepreneurship and innovation in the tech ecosystem. Who will I meet there? #websummit
- It's exciting to see how mature our platform operations have become! Also a great foundation to build agentic platform operations on, just like we are doing 🤖. Nice work from the Skyscrapers team, and work we're happy to share if your interested.
- It's exciting to see how mature our platform operations have become! Also a great foundation to build agentic platform operations on, just like we are doing 🤖. Nice work from the Skyscrapers team, and work we're happy to share if your interested.
- I have a REMOTE opportunity: Migrate Bitbucket/Jira repo's and pipelines to GitHub (Actions) and Azure DevOps: looking for consultant(s) that can help a big international company. Any takers? DM me if you are interested. EU only please. 6 months min.
- I may have an opportunity for a fractional CTO in a Belgian company. DM me if interested. Keywords: remote monitoring of mechanical devices, digital product, multi-tenant, global customer base, IoT, LoRaWAN, Bluetooth
- Know what to read this weekend. Thanks Andreas Creten !
- Who will I meet at Tectonic next week in Ghent?
- This year’s fall retreat comes at a pivotal moment for Skyscrapers. The beautiful Flemish Ardennes, vulnerable talks and good vibes were exactly what we needed to get ready for a fundamental shift in how we operate. 🎯 Together with Simon R. (our CTPO) we started with a deep dive into the completely new strategy for the future. Then, guided by our team coach Ben Poelmans, we went deeper into how our individual needs and company needs can be aligned to make us all succesful. We ended the retreat with our COO Koen Heyns taking the
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