Overview
Matthias Beyens is CTO and co-founder of auditq, a role he has held since September 2025, and is based in Antwerp. Since February 2025 he has also worked as a fractional CTO at Constantly BV. His stated areas of expertise are Python, project management, team management, cloud computing IaaS and technological innovation.
Before that he spent nearly three years at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, joining as a senior data scientist in April 2022 and serving as principal data scientist from June 2024 until March 2025. He was at BISC Global from October 2018 to April 2022, first as a senior bioinformatics consultant and latterly as development team leader.
Beyens studied at the University of Antwerp, completing a bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences in 2012 and a master's degree in the same field in 2014. From October 2014 to December 2020 he carried out doctoral research as a bioinformatician and biomedician at the university's Center of Medical Genetics, obtaining a PhD in medicine and health sciences. Earlier, in 2013, he worked as a student researcher at the Laboratory of Human Anatomy and Embryology and as a student employee at the Center of Medical Genetics.
Career history
In the news
- Wat een inspirerende dag in Kortrijk. Ik mocht voor AuditQ spreken op "Van data naar betere beslissingen: AI en modellen voor kwaliteit en voedselveiligheid", de opleiding van Flanders Food bij Flanders Make. Een welgemeende dank aan Ines Colle en Kevin Winnen voor de organisatie. Een programma waarin predictieve microbiologie, vision-inspectie en documentbeheer zo mooi op elkaar aansluiten, krijg je niet zomaar bij elkaar 👏
- For anyone heading to Tectonic: the hiring story is only part of it. Expect an honest look at what it takes to grow a B2B SaaS (AuditQ) across 3 continents with a small team, including the parts that don't make it into LinkedIn updates 😉 Worth grabbing a seat for. Thanks Start it Accelerate | @KBC and Tectonic for making this happen!
- Which version of the DoC is current?" If answering that takes more than ten seconds, this one's for you. 👇 #PPWR #QualityAssurance
- Yesterday I spent the day inside a UFO. 🛸 Okay, it was the Evoluon in Eindhoven. But after LevelUp 2026, my brain definitely feels abducted, in the best way. Three talks I can't stop thinking about: - Thijs Bosch, CEO of The Protein Brewery Scaling food built on physical raw materials takes serious capital: production capacity, feedstock, factories, long before you reach scale. Huge respect for founders who build in atoms. As CTO of AuditQ, it made me realise how lucky we are that our growth isn't gated by steel tanks.
- The phrase "nothing to hide" means something different when you work in food safety. In theory, it's about transparency. In practice, it's about the mountain of data you have to wrangle before an auditor arrives. Pest control is a good example. Not the kind of topic you bring up at the dinner table, but ask anyone who's been through a BRC or FSSC 22000 audit: pests make the shortlist of nightmares. And the real challenge isn't the occasional mouse, it's proving you have a bulletproof process, without manually combing through months
- Most food companies know the drill: every audit brings a paperwork parade. Policies in one binder, procedures in another, and evidence scattered everywhere. The folders look impressive, until someone asks how it all connects. In medical devices, that question does not need to trigger a scavenger hunt. The EU MDR/IVDR approach is rigorous: every requirement is mapped directly to controls, evidence, and owners. When a standard changes, you can see the ripple effect immediately, down to the affected documents. It is not a paperwork
- What have we gotten ourselves into." 🥸 I thought that most often while pushing code to production during a live client session. Which is exactly as bad an idea as it sounds. I'm not proud of it. I'm telling you anyway, because year one of a company is mostly the parts that don't make the highlight reel, and because it's genuinely behind us: we have a stable platform now. For software that sits between a client and an audit they can't afford to fail, that took twelve months to earn and it's the thing I'd put above any feature we
- Van reactief naar voorspellend kwaliteitsbeheer. Iets wat tot een paar jaar geleden vooral was weggelegd voor grote multinationals, maar vandaag binnen het bereik ligt van elk voedingsbedrijf. Matthias Beyens licht op 27 oktober een tipje van de sluier. Inschrijven kan via de link in de comments.
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