Overview
Phil Clerx is a co-founder of Darwin Design, a company he started in June 2024. He is based in Antwerp.
Before that, he worked as a product developer at OptiRiver from April to September 2023 and at Softhale NV in July 2023, and he interned at Voxdale from March to June 2023. From January 2021 to January 2024 he taught as a bijlesdocent with Studant.
Clerx studied product development at the University of Antwerp, completing a bachelor in science between 2019 and 2022 and a master's degree between September 2022 and June 2024. In late 2023 he also followed the Deep Dive into Business programme at Antwerp Management School.
Career history
In the news
- Super cool om, als voetbalfan, samen met het geweldige team van Borro mee te kunnen werken in deze sector! Thanks Glenn Verhaege & Kasper Albers!
- Borro x Darwin Design Last week, we went out for dinner with Glenn Verhaege and Kasper Albers from Borro. A great evening to look back on our collaboration! Borro wants to make reusable drinking cups truly scalable. Their Return Points are already up and running at clubs like Club Brugge, AZ Alkmaar, FC Utrecht and KV Mechelen... And soon, Paris Saint-Germain will be joining that list as well. ⚽️🇫🇷 With that kind of growth, the product naturally needs to scale too. Over the past period, we’ve been working together with Borro to
- 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 | 𝟭𝟳Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on lately: - Yves has been busy working on some PCBs. - Once a month, we organize our Darwin Dungeon: an internal session where someone from the team dives into a specific topic and shares their knowledge with the rest. This month’s topic: Electronics & IT for Designers. - We’re also working on a cool new project involving liquid chillers, thermodynamics and plenty of testing. - We paid a visit to Triplaco nv and got a look behind the scenes at their
- 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 | 𝟭𝟳Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on lately: - Yves has been busy working on some PCBs. - Once a month, we organize our Darwin Dungeon: an internal session where someone from the team dives into a specific topic and shares their knowledge with the rest. This month’s topic: Electronics & IT for Designers. - We’re also working on a cool new project involving liquid chillers, thermodynamics and plenty of testing. - We paid a visit to Triplaco nv and got a look behind the scenes at their
- Altijd leuk om dit soort posts te mogen delen: we zoeken 𝟮 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻! 👀 Product Engineer – Electronics Product Engineer – Electromechanics Zie jij jezelf al deel uitmaken van ons team? Of ken je iemand die perfect bij Darwin Design zou passen? Stuur je cv en/of portfolio naar 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀@𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻.𝗯𝗲
- 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 | 𝟭𝟲Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on lately: - Our office got a nice upgrade a while ago with a brand-new Dripl machine! Refreshing, tasty, healthy, and even better: Supporting young entrepreneurs who studied at the same university as we did! Colin Deblonde & Lucas Moreau - A knowledge-sharing session on how we can integrate AI and automation into our product development process. More specifically, a tool we built for patent scraping and research. - Bigger projects call for bigger
- 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 | 𝟭𝟲Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on lately: - Our office got a nice upgrade a while ago with a brand-new Dripl machine! Refreshing, tasty, healthy, and even better: Supporting young entrepreneurs who studied at the same university as we did! Colin Deblonde & Lucas Moreau - A knowledge-sharing session on how we can integrate AI and automation into our product development process. More specifically, a tool we built for patent scraping and research. - Bigger projects call for bigger
- 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗪𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 | 𝟭𝟱Here’s a quick recap of what’s been going on lately: - The office keeps growing and getting busier. Next week, we’ll be welcoming a new colleague. Stay tuned to find out who it is. - Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working hard on Borro’s return point, putting thousands of cups through the machine. It’s been great to work together with such an ambitious and motivated team. We also competed as a team in the Borro Cup. We didn’t take home the win this year, but training for next year has already
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