Overview
Yelco Gonzalez is the co-founder and chief executive of AuditQ, a company he co-founded in May 2025. He is based in Dendermonde.
Before AuditQ, Gonzalez worked at EUROCONTROL, where he was a test manager from May 2023 and a program test manager from January 2024 until June 2025. He was a business development manager at Brainbridge between October 2022 and April 2023, and a test engineer at CTG from July 2017 to January 2019. Earlier he held application support roles at AG Insurance in 2017, at DHL from September 2015 to December 2016, and at Smals from November 2014 to August 2015.
Gonzalez studied accounting and computer science at KtaD, and between 2018 and 2021 completed a bachelor's degree as a computer and cybercrime professional at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen.
Career history
In the news
- What have we gotten ourselves into." 🥸 I thought that most often while pushing code to production during a live client session. Which is exactly as bad an idea as it sounds. I'm not proud of it. I'm telling you anyway, because year one of a company is mostly the parts that don't make the highlight reel, and because it's genuinely behind us: we have a stable platform now. For software that sits between a client and an audit they can't afford to fail, that took twelve months to earn and it's the thing I'd put above any feature we
- Van reactief naar voorspellend kwaliteitsbeheer. Iets wat tot een paar jaar geleden vooral was weggelegd voor grote multinationals, maar vandaag binnen het bereik ligt van elk voedingsbedrijf. Matthias Beyens licht op 27 oktober een tipje van de sluier. Inschrijven kan via de link in de comments.
- Net iets langer als een jaar geleden nam ik contact op met Alexander Platteeuw nadat ik naar een van zijn podcast afleveringen had geluisterd. Ik was bezig met iets in food safety en AI en wou eens van gedachten wisselen. Een jaar later mag ik zelf aanschuiven in zijn podcast en zijn we er allebei van overtuigd dat AI een belangrijke rol zal spelen in de toekomst van food safety. Zeer boeiend gesprek, bedankt voor de uitnodiging Alexander! #foodsafety #AI #audit #auditQ
- We’re looking for someone to take our customer experience to the next level. 🚀 Ideally, you’ve done it before, you’re excited to help shape the future of food safety compliance and you’re ready for a wild startup ride. Sounds like you? Apply below or reach out!
- Honestly, If you work in QA and are responsible for certifications or audits, this is one episode you can't afford to miss.
- A few days ago, I spoke with a QA manager at a major ready-meat company. He told me he believes quality teams are still two years away from adopting AI. I disagreed. The transformation isn't coming, it has already begun. And not just in Europe, but around the world!
- I'm proud to be part of the CATALYSE Project EU expert community, which is helping to share knowledge and innovation in food safety across Europe. In an interview published on their website, I talk about what #IT and #Food have in common and how AI and automation can free quality managers from administrative overload, allowing them to focus on what they do best: keeping our food safe. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/enzE6Um5 Thanks CATALYSE Project EU for the article.
- Spoiler alert! What does the future really look like for #QA in food? Recently, I had the pleasure of being invited to #BetterFoodsafeThanSorry by Alexander Platteeuw , where we took a deeper dive into the impact of AI on food, the opportunities we already see today, and what the food industry can expect in the years ahead. A fascinating conversation with a few insights that may not be what you expect. More coming soon. 👀
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