Kris Peeters

TLDR

Kris Peeters is the founder and CEO of Dataminded, the Leuven data engineering consultancy he started in 2014 after four years as a technology specialist at McKinsey & Company, and is the operator behind the Conveyor data product platform spun out of Dataminded.

Overview

Kris Peeters founded Dataminded in August 2014 to bring engineering-first discipline to enterprise data work in Belgium, after concluding from four years at McKinsey & Company that the gap between data strategy decks and shipped data platforms was where most of the value was being lost. Under his leadership the company has grown into one of Belgium's deeper data engineering benches, building cloud data platforms and data mesh architectures for clients including Telenet, KBC, the Flemish Government, bpost, De Persgroep, Goodyear, and Essent.

He has been the sponsor behind Conveyor, the managed DataOps and data-product workbench spun out of Dataminded's consulting work, and an active voice on the Belgian data scene through Medium writing, conference talks, and the Data Science Belgium community. He speaks regularly on data mesh, data products, and the operating model of modern data teams, including at events like DDD Europe.

Career History

• Founder and CEO at Dataminded (Aug 2014 to present)
• Technology Specialist at McKinsey & Company (Aug 2010 to Aug 2014), ETL tooling and data platform design for global clients
• Software Engineer at Belgacom (Sept 2009 to Aug 2010)
• Consultant at Alten Nederland (Aug 2007 to Aug 2009)
• Software Engineer at eventIS (Aug 2007 to June 2009)
• Software Engineer at i.know (Apr 2006 to July 2007)
• Software Engineer at Profel (Oct 2005 to Apr 2006)

Education

• MSc in Computer Science, Hasselt University (2000 to 2005)
• Vlerick Business School executive program (2016)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (2019)
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (2019)

Notes

Peeters is one of the more credible voices in the Belgian data engineering community, with the McKinsey-to-builder arc and a decade-plus operating history at Dataminded. Strong VibeMedia candidate for episodes on data platforms, data mesh adoption in mid-size European enterprises, and the consultancy-to-product transition.

Sources

• https://be.linkedin.com/in/peeterskris
• https://theorg.com/org/dataminded/org-chart/kris-peeters
• https://www.dataminded.com/about/team
• https://2025.dddeurope.com/speakers/kris-peeters/
• https://datasciencebe.com/kris-peeters/
• https://peeterskris.medium.com/