Co-creating impactful
AI solutions
is in our roots.
Bringing modern solutions
to everyday challenges.
Dataroots was founded out of a strong belief that AI & data-driven solutions can be used by companies to gain a competitive edge in terms of company processes, customer interactions and legal compliance. Our mission is to deliver data-driven solutions with unrivalled longevity and business impact for our clients.
Our first-class team closely partners with our customers in a highly collaborative mode in order to achieve their ambitious goals. We do so by helping our customers leverage the value of their data and support the design of their data-driven strategy. On this journey with our customer, we ensure they succeed in achieving their strategic targets through the use of state-of-the-art data analysis, models and solutions. Our robust solutions and solid support ensure our customer becomes self-sufficient and reap the long-term benefits of our solutions.
Delivering quality to happy customers
is our core focus
Team growth is a result.
Proudly powered by Talan
Dataroots joined the Talan family in 2022. Talan strenghtens Dataroots' reach by providing an international playing field for Dataroots' employees and customers.
Living by
our values.
Revolutionary
Staying on top of new developments in the space of data & AI.
Ownership
A talented team with a quality-first mindset.
Open
An open, inclusive & welcoming environment.
Trustworthy
Our way-of-working is transparent & tailored to your needs.
Straightforward
A pragmatic approach to solving business challenges.
Why is there a 🏳️🌈 in our logo?
These colors are obviously a hint toward the LGBT Pride flag. So why is this?
The rainbow flag is an important symbol of the LGBTQ+ community, a community whose beliefs we value. Moreover we find the rainbow flag for Dataroots to be a floating signifier, a symbol that allows us to express our stance on the norms and values that we hold dear.
As a society we still have a ways to go in terms of accepting diversity. Changing societal views takes a long time and requires enough parts of a society to express their stance on a needed change. The rainbow colors that are structurally incorporated in our logo allow us to show very explicitly, and at the core of our identity, that we as Dataroots will always stand for diversity and respect in whatever shape, form or time.
Sponsored over the years
Some large donations, some small, always for ❤️
Our leadership
Business Units
Charlotte De Baere
Head of AI
Charlotte has worked on and supported numerous data and ML projects. During her most recent years, her focus shifted more towards project and stakeholder coordination in projects around machine learning, artificial intelligence, data management and towards bringing relevant business insights. At Dataroots, her aim is to guide where necessary to identify new ML opportunities, implement innovative AI solutions and to improve overall quality, productivity and efficiency of the team(s).
Gauthier Feuillen
Head of Data & Cloud
Gauthier has a background in computer engineering with a master in Artificial Intelligence. He started his career with a brief experience as a Data Scientist before fully devoting himself to Data Engineering and more broadly to Software engineering. Today Gauthier architects data intensive solutions with a great care on quality, scalability and maintainability for the clients he works with. When he is not testing a new FP programming language, he tries to improve his puck-shooting skills or spend time with his loved ones.
Kevin Missoorten
Head of Strategy
Kevin has 10+ years of combined experience in data & analytics consulting across several industries, in particular Financial Services and Life Sciences. At Dataroots Kevin leads the team of data strategists and analytics translators, who both aim to help organisations become more data driven by bridging business needs with analytical capabilities. Kevin is most passionate about helping organisations define the next best action to take their data-driven maturity to the next level.
Sam Debruyn
Tech Lead Data & Cloud
Sam is passionate about cloud data platforms and has helped various customers build and scale their data platforms on Microsoft Azure. With his background in software engineering, he ensures to deliver nothing but the highest level of quality, performance and cost-efficiency. As a true believer of FOSS, he is also a regular contributor to the open source community and takes the best of it back to the design and implementation of our solutions.
Murilo K.S. Cunha
Tech Lead AI
With a background in Mechanical Engineering and a masters in Artificial Intelligence, Murilo's main goal is to make AI both useful and accessible by building ML systems following MLOps best practices. When Murilo is not on Stack Overflow or teaching machines, you can find him on the football field defending the datafoots' colors 💪
Virginie Marelli
Head of Dataroots Research
Virginie has a background in mathematics and believes firmly in AI to be omnipresent in the future. Even comparing it to the second industrial revolution. She would love to play a part in this (r)evolution. In systematically improving and ensuring that AI is implemented in an ethical way, her purpose is to impact the world we live in. Virginie gladly shares her passion and experience in helping others reach their goal.
Vitale Sparacello
Tech Lead AI
Vitale has a background in Computer Engineering and during his Master he felt in love with AI :heart: He strongly believes that AI will bring huge benefits to our lives and his biggest goal is to help make it happen. He has a wide knowledge of ML theory and strong Software Engineering skills, the perfect combination to solve real world challenges! He loves to spend time with his friends, playing football and discovering new stories (from movies, tv series, mangas, video games … the medium doesn’t matter).
Organisational Excellence
Joke Goedeweeck
Head of HR
Joke is an experienced HR generalist who strongly focuses on crossing the gap between business & HR. She’s a teamplayer with a background in social work, a history of working in tech companies and has a hands-on approach. She loves to work with people and always tries to bring out the best in them. She believes that our employees are our biggest asset, which we need to cherish & value by supporting them at all levels.
Tim Van Erum
Head of Business Development
Tim combines a background in Computer Science Engineering with a degree in Economics, and that says is about as good of an indicator of what he represents as possible. By combining the profound interest in not only AI, but Computer Science problems in general, with a continuously developing business sense, Tim helps the Business Development team and Data Strategy Guild to reach new heights. Next to discovering new and interesting ways to solve AI problems, you'll most likely find him on a basketball court, practicing or coaching a youth team.
Guild Grand Masters
Bram Vandendriessche
Guild Master Data & Cloud
Asked as a kid what he wanted to do later, Bram always answered: “something with computers”. And so it came to pass. After his education in Computer Science, Bram worked as a Machine Learning Engineer before moving to Data Engineering. He loves to discover new industries and technologies and to tackle the challenges within one using the other. When Bram is not data engineering or guild grandmastering, he likes to read, be outside and play futsal.
Cynthia Laureys
Guild Master AI
Cynthia studied Applied Mathematics both at the UCLouvain and the KU Leuven. Her passion for AI was revealed by her thesis in Deep Learning. Striving for challenges, she embraces the daily life of a ML engineer at Dataroots where every day is different. She likes supporting the business by translating their problems into advanced solutions. She is fully convinced that Dataroots impact is a direct consequence of its team expertise, this is why she invested herself internally as AI Guild Master. She balances her life by spending some time testing new recipes that she enjoys after her nature getaways.
Founding Team
Jonas Tundo
Founder & CEO
Jonas is co-founder and CEO at Dataroots. His background as bio-statistician started him on a data science career in the healthcare sector, followed by a move to the financial industry. After this he decided to create Dataroots as a response to the lagging impact of AI in Belgium. His journey as an entrepreneur has been with a focus on achieving impact and creating value for his customers.
Bart Smeets
Founder
Bart is co-founder of Dataroots. He became passionate about programming at a young age. Today at Dataroots he is active in cloud-native platform design, AI solution development, HR and strategy. Bart is a proud father and highly (too?) passionate about endurance sports. Bart believes that everything starts with a great team, everything else follows that.
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