Renaud Denis - AI-augmented Software Architect
Renaud Denis
AI-augmented Software Architect
Belgium

I build software from product vision to production delivery.

For more than 20 years, I have worked as a developer, architect, team leader, and CTO.

Today I work in two connected tracks: freelance engineering engagements and product building as Solo Founder & Principal Engineer at Tylium.

In freelance engagements, I take one of two roles depending on the context. At C-level, I play a central role in defining product vision, roadmap, architecture, and delivery direction. As an architect, I work within an existing direction and focus on architecture decisions and delivery execution. In both, I rely intensively on AI coding agents: experience drives the decisions, agents multiply the execution.

At EMAsphere, I returned in 2026 to build the AI layer of its platform: the agent microservice, the MCP server and its security layer, a front-end reference that development teams build on, and an instruction framework for AI-assisted engineering. I started each part, and the team has continued them since. The MCP server went from first prototype to production in ten weeks, and the whole AI layer is now in production.

At Tylium, I build a long-term Rust and web ecosystem for audio software, with its developer product line, Cutoff.dev. It is both my own product venture and my lab for improving how I work.

Outside work, music has always been part of my life. I play keyboards (piano, Hammond organ, and synths), and nature is where I reset.

I dream big on vision and architecture, and I stay realistic on roadmap and delivery. Dream hard, deliver hard.

See the full, gloriously detailed version in Resume or view my case studies.