Summary
Eric Piraux is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over 20 years of experience architecting enterprise integration and middleware solutions, now channeling that expertise as CEO of Botronics to build autonomous, AI-embedded robots like Otto-Project.golf. His background spans senior technical leadership roles at Elia, STIB-MIVB, Infrabel and Smals, where he drove SOA adoption, custom ESBs and high-availability messaging platforms that modernized large organizations. Eric blends hands-on engineering (including home-grown C# ESBs and clustered middleware) with strategic product vision, making him comfortable both in code-level design and in founding a startup. Based in the Charleroi area, he is pragmatic about evolution over revolution—favoring incremental architecture change that scales across departments—and brings a rare combination of operational IT management and deep integration architecture to robotics and AI.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
4 Mechanical Engineer, 4 Mechanical Engineer at Haute Ecole de la Communauté française 'Paul-Henri Spaak', Bruxelles
French, English, Dutch, German