Ward Peeters
Head Of Product at Twikit
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Ward Peeters is a product leader and technologist with 12 years of experience building XR, 3D visualization and immersive simulation products for healthcare, enterprise and brand experiences. As founder of Lifelike XR and Isala Simulations and now Head of Product at Twikit, he blends hands-on development (Unity, web front-ends) with product vision—shipping everything from AR installations for global launches to haptic-enabled medical simulators. He is an active open-source contributor focused on web performance and developer experience, improving projects like Gatsby, Preact, Lighthouse and microbundle to boost LCP, bundling and testing workflows. Ward’s background includes creating a digital twin for the City of Antwerp and building Hololens data-visualization demos, showing a rare mix of urban-scale systems and experiential XR. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with academic training from MIT and multidisciplinary degrees, and quietly prioritizes measurable performance and developer ergonomics across every project.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Short Prorgam Advances in Imaging, Short Prorgam Advances in Imaging at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Multimedia en Communicatie Technologie, Bachelor's degree Multimedia en Communicatie Technologie at Erasmushogeschool BrusselBachelor's degree Digital Concept Development, Bachelor's degree Digital Concept Development at EK - Erhvervsakademi København
Github Skills (51)
babel610
debug10
puppeteer10
javascript10
evaluation10
ui-components10
testing10
typescript10
environment-variables10
ui-design10
bundle10
chrome-extension10
uid10
google-chrome-extension10
component-kit10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mastra-ai/mastra
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
The TypeScript AI agent framework. ⚡ Assistants, RAG, observability. Supports any LLM: GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:272 reviews, 286 PRs, 471 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ward primarily focused on improving the setup and creation process of the "create-mastra" project, indicating a focus on the project's developer experience. They implemented features, updated build configurations, added starter files, and integrated change sets. Additionally, the user contributed by adding a toxicity metric, including its implementation and documentation to the evals package, demonstrating a focus on AI agent evaluation. They also added a contextual recall metric with its tests.
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gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-shopify
May 2021 - Nov 2021
A Gatsby starter using the latest Shopify plugin showcasing a store with product overview, individual product pages, and a cart
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ward primarily focused on improving the user interface and performance of the Gatsby starter. They addressed CSS module warnings, optimized CSS performance, and made the search bar more responsive by implementing debouncing. The user also worked on fixing image handling and improving Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) by using eager loading on first image. These changes included refactoring of multiple components and pages within the application to improve the user experience.
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