# Simon Willems - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Simon Willems
- Role: CTO
- Company: Alternatief
- Location: Geraardsbergen, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-willems

## About
Simon Willems is CTO of Alternatief, a role he took up in June 2024. He is based in Geraardsbergen.

Before joining Alternatief, he worked as a freelance senior software engineer at Cochlear from June 2023 to May 2024. He was a software development engineer at Yunex Traffic between July 2021 and May 2023, and before that at SIEMENS Mobility sa/nv, where he had joined in October 2018 as a parametric engineer and moved into a software development engineering role in February 2019. He was also a junior consultant at ALTEN BELGIUM from October 2018 to December 2020.

Willems studied electronics-ICT at Hogeschool Odisee from 2012 to 2016, completing a bachelor thesis at ON Semiconductor, and then took a Master of Science in Engineering in industrial engineering electronics at KU Leuven from 2016 to 2018, carrying out his master thesis at Televic Rail.

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## Related Pages
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## Recent News
- [2026-06-23] Ruim 2 jaar geleden stapte ik als CTO aan boord bij Alternatief, dat dit jaar 10 jaar bestaat. In de jubileumeditie van Voka… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-willems_alternatief-voka-jubileum-activity-7475089274829246464-t2AK)

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