Kiefer Beernaert

Kiefer Beernaert is based in Mechelen, where he owns Mind.Shift BV and works at Mind as a QA automation engineer and product delivery facilitator, a role he has held since January 2020. In January 2026 he co-founded ScanTrack, where he leads product. His stated areas of expertise are product delivery, QA automation and JavaScript.

Before that he was a quality assurance automation engineer at Brightest from November 2017 to January 2020, and held the same role at CTG from March to November 2017. Between October 2015 and October 2016 he worked as an ICT specialist at Groep A. De Witte through the Switch2IT traineeship.

Beernaert studied computer software engineering at Erasmushogeschool Brussel, graduating in 2019, and followed this with a postgraduate degree in artificial intelligence at the same institution. He later completed a masterclass in 3D modelling and printing and a postgraduate degree in entrepreneurship with impact at Arteveldehogeschool, and a blockchain developer and architect programme at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen in 2023. He trained as an enterprise Java developer with VDAB from 2014 to 2015.