# Jelle De Laender - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Jelle De Laender for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Identity
- Name: Jelle De Laender
- Role: Founder
- Company: Semonto
- Location: Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelledelaender

## About
Jelle started coding at age 14 and founded Coding Mammoth in 2007 while still studying at the University of Ghent (https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt). He created Semonto (https://techwiki.ai/companies/semonto/llms.txt) as an internal tool to alert him when servers went offline, and it grew over 12 years into his most popular product.

Beyond Semonto (https://techwiki.ai/companies/semonto/llms.txt) he has worked as a security leader at Sketch and is interested in security research, AWS cloud hosting, and 3D printing. Semonto (https://techwiki.ai/companies/semonto/llms.txt) is a European-hosted alternative to US monitoring tools, used by organisations including De Lijn.

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] Semonto: https://techwiki.ai/companies/semonto/llms.txt
- [city] Ghent: https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt
- [city] Antwerp: https://techwiki.ai/cities/antwerp/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-04-23] A while ago, I noticed something strange 🤔 I was training consistently. Logging runs. Closing rings. Doing “all the right things”. But I had no real sense of progress. Not day to day. Not even month  (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jelledelaender_a-while-ago-i-noticed-something-strange-activity-7453024388624539648-4kWa)

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelledelaender
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jelle-de-laender/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jelle-de-laender/llms-full.txt

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