Career
He started to develop software in 1991 and installed his first GNU/Linux operating system in 1993 after which he eventually joined as a webmaster for the GNU Project. In the late 1990s, he spent some time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Labs where he met with Richard Stallman and others from the Free Software Foundation, joining them for The Bazaar conference in New New York Having worked with Creative Commons for several years, including running a course of fundraising at the Peer to Peer University, he became the first Regional Coordinator for Europe in 2011.
His work for the organisation eventually led him to a position as a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation where his work focus on creating tools and prototypes for the embedding of metadata for licensing and attribution requirements in digital works.
His company Commons Machinery was featured as one of the 12 winners of Technical All Stars 2014, a competition of the European Commission"s and Neelie Kroes"s Digital Agenda.