Overview
Gilles Uyttenhove is the founder and chief executive of cloudknife, which he co-founded in January 2026. He is based in Gent.
Before that he worked at Delhaize Belgium, which he joined in December 2020 as a data and analytics analyst, becoming data and analytics product owner in November 2022 and data and AI innovation lead in December 2025, a role he held until March 2026. From May 2017 to November 2019 he was a business controller at La Lorraine Bakery Group NV.
Uyttenhove studied at Ghent University, where he completed a bachelor's degree in business engineering in 2014, a master's degree in business engineering with a finance specialisation in 2016, and a master's degree in data science for business, formerly marketing analysis, in 2020. During his studies he spent the 2014-2015 academic year at ISC Paris on an Erasmus exchange programme. He attended secondary school at Don Boscocollege Zwijnaarde, in mathematics and sciences with supplementary mathematics.
Career history
In the news
- Last week we opened CloudKnife to the public. Today we’re launching on Product Hunt and we could use your help. The launches of the day are ranked by the support they get, so the next hours decide where we land. Two minutes is all it takes: 👍 Upvote CloudKnife on Product Hunt 💬 Leave a comment or some feedback 🔁 Share this post with your network For a small team from Ghent up against launches from all over the world, every upvote counts. 👉 Link to the Product Hunt page in the first comment.
- 27% minder cloudkosten. Gewoon door slimmer om te gaan met wat er al is. Dat realiseerde de Gentse start-up CloudKnife bij een klant. Met hun nieuwe platform helpen Gilles Uyttenhove en Jonas D’Hollander bedrijven om hun cloudinfrastructuur efficiënter te gebruiken. Minder ongebruikte capaciteit, minder onnodige kosten en meer middelen voor innovatie. En nu AI de vraag naar rekenkracht alleen maar doet toenemen, wordt dat steeds belangrijker. 🚀 Een mooi voorbeeld van hoe Gentse technologie bedrijven slimmer en competitiever kan
- Today CloudKnife is officially live! 🚀 🚀 🚀 For the past months we’ve been building and refining the platform together with a small group of early adopters. They ran it on their real Azure environments, told us what worked and what didn’t, and the product has evolved tremendously because of it. As of today it’s openly available to anyone. Whether you’re an individual developer or part of a large cloud team, you can try it for free and see how much optimisation potential is sitting in your cloud environment, before committing to any
- I’ll be at Tectonic next week. Looking forward to connecting with fellow founders, clients, and potential partners. Attending as well? Drop me a message and let’s catch up!
- We’ve been sharpening things at CloudKnife. Stay tuned the coming days and weeks 👀
- CloudKnife is now also helping cloud teams to save Norwegian Crowns.
- Last week I presented CloudKnife to a room of seasoned investors and industry experts at imec.istart's Investor Day. The case I made: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰, 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹. Most tools stop at showing you the problem. Dashboards, reports, numbers to stare at. 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗞𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻
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