Dr. Simon Harrer

Co-Founder and CEO of Entropy Data · Gerolzhofen, Bavaria, Germany

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Simon is co-founder and CEO of Entropy Data, a data marketplace for data products and contracts.

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Dr. Simon Harrer is co-founder and CEO of Entropy Data, a data marketplace powered by data products and contracts based on open standards.

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Dr. Simon Harrer is co-founder and CEO of Entropy Data, building a data marketplace powered by data products and contracts based on open standards. He serves on the technical steering committee for the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS) at the Linux Foundation.

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Dr. Simon Harrer is co-founder and CEO of Entropy Data, a company building a data marketplace powered by data products and contracts. He brings his deep experience in software engineering to the world of data, advocating for robust, contract-first approaches. Simon is also a member of the technical steering committee for the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS) at the Linux Foundation.

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Dr. Simon Harrer holds a PhD in Distributed Systems from the University of Bamberg, Germany. Based on six years of teaching Java programming to students, he co-wrote the best-selling book "Java by Comparison".

He then moved into industry as a Senior Consultant at INNOQ, where he delivered software as part of a team practicing full-time remote software teaming. For that, the team created the popular open source tool mob.sh.

Today, Simon brings that engineering mindset to the world of data. He is co-founder and CEO of Entropy Data, a spin-off of INNOQ building a data marketplace powered by data products and contracts. He co-translated the German edition of "Data Mesh", co-created the Data Contract CLI and Data Contract Editor, and serves on the technical steering committee for the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS) at the Linux Foundation.