# Jelle De Zwaef - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-08

## Identity
- Name: Jelle De Zwaef
- Role: founder
- Company: Nordend
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelledezwaef

## About
Jelle De Zwaef is the founder of Nordend, which he established in June 2019 and where he serves as managing director. He is based in Brussels. Since January 2021 he has worked at Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer as a business and change data migration analyst, and he has been a member of Rubicon since September 2021.

From March 2017 to December 2021 he was a senior GIS consultant at Infrabel, and between April 2015 and May 2019 he was a project delivery manager at Avineon Europe. Earlier roles include geospatial specialist at Intergraph, team leader map production at XMedia AG and business development manager at media swiss ag, both now Ringier Digital. He spent five years at Star-Apic, first as an application support engineer and then as an application consultant, and before that worked as a GIS expert at Tele Atlas and as a cartographer at Geocart.

He studied geography with a major in geomatics at Ghent University, graduating in 2002, and completed an Executive Master Class in Business Process Management at Vlerick Business School in 2015.

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## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] Nordend: https://techwiki.ai/companies/nordend/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-03] I once audited a Belgian agency that owned 23 FME desktop licenses. They were actively using 9. The remaining 14 were renewed annually, by… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jelledezwaef_i-once-audited-a-belgian-agency-that-owned-activity-7489983427069415424-PxcE)
- [2026-07-30] I do not have a system for keeping up with my industry. The closest thing to a system is that I watch every Safe Software webinar unless… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jelledezwaef_i-do-not-have-a-system-for-keeping-up-with-activity-7488533912982540288-DuhB)
- [2026-07-29] The most fragile moment in any spatial data team is a resignation letter. The person leaving usually built the FME workflow and remembers… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jelledezwaef_the-most-fragile-moment-in-any-spatial-data-activity-7488179022145761280-si7w)
- [2026-07-27] My heroes are not business leaders. They are Hemingway, Humboldt, and De Gerlache, a Belgian who in the 1890s sailed a ship, called the… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jelledezwaef_my-heroes-are-not-business-leaders-they-activity-7487424045295194112-MyeM)
- [2026-07-23] Asking for help is the hardest skill I have had to learn in years of running Nordend. I am still not great at it. Bookkeeping is one of the… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jelledezwaef_asking-for-help-is-the-hardest-skill-i-have-activity-7486027377429417985-JjQ-)

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelledezwaef
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jelle-de-zwaef/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jelle-de-zwaef/llms-full.txt

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