# Roy Heerkens - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Roy Heerkens
- Role: Co-Founder
- Company: Opstudio
- Location: Tessenderlo, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/royheerkens

## Expertise
- Software Development
- Project Management
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
- Industrial Process Optimization

## About
Roy Heerkens is a co-founder of opstudio, which he started in June 2024, and is based in Tessenderlo. He has been an MES automation engineer at Pfizer since February 2023, and takes up a role as OT MES engineer at Stellantis in May 2026.

He spent close to five years at VistaLink NV, joining in June 2018 as a field service engineer, moving to computer vision engineer in December 2019 and then to software engineer from June 2021 until February 2023. Before that he worked as a manufacturing technician at Sanofi from August 2016 to May 2018.

Heerkens studied chemical process technology at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, graduating in 2016, and completed a thesis at the University of Gdansk on the optimisation of native human B-defensin 3 chemical synthesis. His stated areas of expertise include software development, project management, manufacturing execution systems, good manufacturing practice and industrial process optimisation.

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