# Toon Mertens - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Toon Mertens
- Role: Product Owner
- Company: Amplifino
- Location: Brugge, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toon-mertens-294983186

## About
Toon Mertens is a product owner at Amplifino, based in Brugge, a role he took up in January 2026. Before that he spent three years at Smart at Energy as a junior data engineer, from January 2023 to January 2026.

He studied at Ghent University, completing a Bachelor of Engineering in computer software engineering between 2017 and 2020 and a Master of Engineering in the same field between 2020 and 2022. His master's dissertation, written between February and September 2022, addressed the explainability of neural network-based recommender systems.

Earlier, he worked as a lifeguard for Stad Oostende across the summers from August 2015 to August 2018, and as a waiter at The Potato Bar in the summer of 2019 and at Brugge Die Scone in the summer of 2020.

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