Xavier Geerinck

The Achievers Mindset

When I tell people that I had 5 startups (yes, see [my projects](/project)), worked for 2, graduated 1.5 years ago as a Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and straight out of school got hired at one of the largest tech firm, then people are always coming up with the same sentences: "You have too much time", "Geek", "Get a Hobby", "Get a Girlfriend". Well what if I would tell you that this is something easy to achieve? Something that everyone is able to do in life? Would you be interested in learning my story?

Lessons learned after being at Microsoft for 1 year

Today marks my 1st anniversary of working as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and wow what an exciting time it has been! But before I go deeper into my experiences and lessons learned, I first would like to start by thanking some people without whom all of this would never have been possible.

So you want to become a leader? Review my lessons learned from the top leaders and roles in technology

While working at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect in Data Platform, one of the things we constantly thrive for is improving ourselves and our customers by spreading our energy and passion. A way to improve this is by focusing on our growth path to see which skills we lack and how we can improve those. One of those skills for me is **leadership, and how we can grow towards managing a team and reaching new heights**. Just think of managing a team of Architect, managing a Product team or even managing the technical strategy of Microsoft (=CTO).

My Key Take-aways from reading Satya Nadella’s Book “Hit Refresh”

I recently started at Microsoft, where I joined at the perfect moment. Microsoft has been transforming under the lead of our new CEO Satya Nadella. Who brought a new fresh breeze of air through the company, with as goal of “Hitting Refresh” and preparing us for the years to come.

Bridge Year Experience - University Ghent

Spending the summer at a Startup

This summer, just after finishing my exams for my bridge year, I decided to do something else this summer. After thinking about it for a long time, I thought, why not instead of working at an already established company, work for a startup instead? This is when I started looking out for startups that were in need of a developer to create their Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Feedients Development Environment

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