eric rodriguez · brussels · shipping since 1996
Civil engineer turned serial technical founder. Writing code since 1996, from developer to architect to CTO. Today I co-build a portfolio of Belgian tech and still ship open source from the command line.
co-founder & partner at
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Single-purpose command-line interfaces for SaaS APIs, built for terminals, CI pipelines, and AI agents. JSON in, JSON out. Deterministic exit codes. Secrets in your OS keychain, never on disk. No SDK glue.
Help Scout CLI
A fast, scriptable CLI for Help Scout: conversations, customers, reporting, the Docs knowledge base and Beacon utilities.
$ hscli conversation list --mailbox support --jq '.[].subject' "Refund for order #4821" "Can't reset my password"
Pipedrive CLI
A full CLI for Pipedrive: deals, persons, organizations, activities and leads across the v2 and v1 APIs.
$ pdcli deal list --status open --jq '.[].title' "ACME · annual renewal" "Globex · pilot expansion"
Exact Online CLI
A CLI for Exact Online accounting: entries, invoices, orders, master data, SEPA mandates and collections, with typed commands by code.
$ exactcli receivable list --status 20 --jq '.[].AccountName' "Acme NV" "Globex SA"
--help~ $ cat ./ventures
A portfolio of companies I co-own and build across fintech, official-data, and legaltech, plus the Belgian communities I help run. Operator and engineer, at the same time.
European fintech turning inventory into working capital: financing up to 80% of stock value, with automated assessment and direct ERP/WMS integration. I architect the platform that turns inventory data into funding decisions.
The search engine for Belgian company information: official records, annual accounts and financial APIs (scoring, fraud prevention, enrichment) across 2.2M+ companies. Built on Elasticsearch at scale.
A legal search platform making 3.2M+ official legal documents accessible to citizens, professionals, and the courts: turning a flood of legal text into usable insight and transparency.
A builders' software studio: eight engineers with 10+ years shipping together. Custom frontend, backend, DevOps and AI, with deep roots in fintech, legaltech and data. Idea → architecture → ship → handover. Not an agency.
A Brussels growth agency where marketing meets engineering: GTM engineering, marketing automation, custom software, and data-driven acquisition for companies that want to scale.
Brussels' pioneering coworking space and one of Belgium's largest: a home for 200+ founders, freelancers, and builders since 2010.
Helping grow Belgium's tech ecosystem.
Earlier ventures and roles: founder, CTO, and consultant across startups, finance, customs, and government.
Pictawall · Auctelia · ABC Resto · Bull Beats Bear · Bluenox · Cetelem · I.R.I.S
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I'm a civil engineer from UCL (AI & Math, 2005) who became a serial technical founder. I've been building since 1996, going from developer to architect to CTO, shipping software across banking, government, customs, and a string of startups.
Today I co-own and build a portfolio of Belgian tech: Finrack (fintech), data.be (official company data), lex.be (legal search), and Backspace (a builders' studio). I sit on the board of FinTech Belgium. My sweet spot is where deep engineering meets a real business problem: data infrastructure, fintech rails, and developer tooling.
I never stopped writing code, and I still love it. On the side I ship open source: hscli, pdcli and exactcli, CLIs that make SaaS APIs scriptable from the shell, CI, and the new wave of AI agents. Fast, honest tools that get out of your way.
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Working on a hard problem in fintech, data, legaltech, or developer tooling? Drop me a line.