Now

What I’m focused on as of .

Work

Building Entropy Data as Co-Founder & CEO. Current focus: a data product marketplace for humans and agents — data products described by data contracts and connected through a semantic layer, so that people and their agents can discover data, understand it, and get governed access to it.

Open standards

On the technical steering committee for the Open Data Contract Standard and the Open Data Product Standard, both governed by Bitol at the Linux Foundation. Most of what I build and speak about sits on top of these two.

Open source

Maintaining datacontract-cli, which implements ODCS and now sees around 1.4M downloads a month, and datacontract-editor. Newest is Data Landscape, a map of the open standards behind a modern data architecture. Full list on open source.

Speaking

A busy October, all of it in German. Next up: a full-day Datenkontrakte in der Praxis workshop at data2day 2026 in Köln on 6 October. Then the Software Architecture Summit 2026 in Berlin brings two more — a workshop with Arif Wider, Mit Data Contracts Vertrauen in Daten herstellen (12 October), and the keynote Agentic AI ist der nächste große Schritt der generativen KI (13 October).

Just gave Data Product Builder: Building Your Data Product Contract-first at the POA Summit 2026 in Antwerp on 17 September. Before that: two sessions at SummerSOC 2026 in Crete — Overview on Standards for Data Products and Chat with your Enterprise Data — closing out a June that also brought a Data Contracts workshop at Data Mesh Live 2026 in Antwerpen, A Data Marketplace is What Your Agent Needs at the DATA festival in München, and two sessions at TDWI München 2026. Full list on talks.

Writing & research

Peer-reviewed work on data contracts, data governance with GenAI, and LLM-bridged data products — see research. Shorter pieces go out on LinkedIn and the Entropy Data blog rather than here.

Where

Gerolzhofen, Germany. Working remotely with the Entropy Data team.

This is a /now page, a snapshot of current focus rather than an archive. See others at nownownow.com.