Peter Forret
Member Of SAWA Digital Committee at SAWA - GLOBAL CINEMA ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION
Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolPeter Forret is a seasoned software architect and technical director with 13+ years driving the digitization of cinema advertising and a 30+ year tech career rooted in an MSc in Computer Science. He led Belgium's migration from analog to digital cinema advertising, designing microservice-based systems for planning, forecasting, delivery and reporting, and hands-on tools for DCP generation and digital distribution. As founder of toolstud.io and Technical Director at Brightfish, he combines product-minded engineering, data visualization and process automation with R&D and prototyping experience. A long-time consultant and member of the SAWA Digital Committee, he bridges business workflow analysis and pragmatic architecture design while staying current on AI and data protection practices. Notably, his work blends multimedia standards expertise with lightweight web tooling that quietly supports publishers, sysadmins and media operations.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Data Protection Officer, Data Protection Officer at Data Protection InstituteM.Sc., M.Sc. at KU LeuvenPostgrad, Postgrad at K.U.LeuvenHigh School, High School at Klein Seminarie
English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
mrtg8
dci7
git-tag7
boilerplate6
parsing6
bash5
monitor5
monitoring4
laravel-nova4
snippet4
subprocess4
laravel4
linux-shell4
shell4
sh4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cinemapub/wdpr_priv_generator
May 2018 - May 2021
GDPR-compliant Privacy Statement Generator - plugin for Wordpress
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
gdpr-compliantdata-protectionprivacygenerator-pluginwordpress
brightfish-be/DcpToolkit
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
PHP Package to read and write DCP Digital Cinema packages
Contributions:3 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
phpphp-packagedcpcinemadci
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