# Simon Harrer

> Dr. Simon Harrer is Co-Founder and CEO of Entropy Data, where he builds agentic data governance. He is the author of "Java by Comparison", co-author of "Remote Mob Programming" and "GitOps", and the German translator of Zhamak Dehghani's "Data Mesh". He maintains the open-source Data Contract CLI and Data Contract Editor, publishes peer-reviewed research on data governance with generative AI, and speaks regularly on data contracts, data mesh, and data products. Based in Gerolzhofen, Germany.

## Pages

- [Home](https://simonharrer.com/): Overview of Simon Harrer's books, open source, talks, podcasts, and research.
- [Books](https://simonharrer.com/books.html): Java by Comparison, Remote Mob Programming, GitOps, the German translation of Data Mesh, his PhD thesis, and a contributed Data Contracts chapter in Effektive Softwarearchitekturen.
- [Articles](https://simonharrer.com/articles.html): Articles on data products, data contracts, data mesh, and remote mob programming (INNOQ, Java Magazin, and others).
- [Open Source](https://simonharrer.com/open-source.html): Data Contract CLI, Data Contract Editor, and mob.sh — tools used daily by developers and data teams.
- [Talks](https://simonharrer.com/talks.html): Conference talks, meetups, and workshops on data contracts, data mesh, data products, dbt, GitOps, remote mob programming, and clean Java.
- [Podcasts](https://simonharrer.com/podcasts.html): Podcast appearances and interviews on data contracts, data mesh, data governance with AI, and remote mob programming.
- [Research](https://simonharrer.com/research.html): Peer-reviewed research on data governance with generative AI, data contracts, and bridging data products with LLMs, plus earlier work on BPMN/BPEL and workflow engine benchmarking.
- [Bio](https://simonharrer.com/bio.html): Copy-ready bio and press photo in English and German for event organizers and journalists.
- [Now](https://simonharrer.com/now.html): A snapshot of what Simon Harrer is currently focused on.
- [Full text](https://simonharrer.com/llms-full.txt): The complete content of every page above, in one file.

## Key facts

- Full name: Dr. Simon Harrer
- Role: Co-Founder and CEO of Entropy Data (https://www.entropy-data.com/), which builds agentic data governance — software that uses AI agents to help organizations manage data contracts, data products, and data quality.
- Open standards: serves on the technical steering committee for the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS), both governed by Bitol (https://bitol.io/), a Linux Foundation project.
- Based in: Gerolzhofen, Germany
- Education: PhD in computer science, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
- Contact: simon.harrer@entropy-data.com
- Speaks on: data contracts, data mesh, data products, agentic data governance, GitOps, remote mob programming, and clean Java. Event organizers can find a copy-ready bio and press photo at https://simonharrer.com/bio.html.
- Books: author of "Java by Comparison" (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2018, with Jörg Lenhard and Linus Dietz); co-author of "Remote Mob Programming" (2020) and "GitOps" (2021); German translator of Zhamak Dehghani's "Data Mesh" (2023); contributor of a data contracts chapter to "Effektive Softwarearchitekturen" (2024); PhD thesis on process engine evaluation (University of Bamberg Press, 2017).
- Open source: maintains the Data Contract CLI (https://github.com/datacontract/datacontract-cli) and the Data Contract Editor; co-created mob.sh (https://mob.sh/).

## Profiles

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonharrer/
- GitHub: https://github.com/simonharrer
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LLb291wAAAAJ&hl=de
- DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/35/7525.html
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1023-9897
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133063725