Pieter Hintjens is a software designer, writer, and campaigner with 30 years' experience in the IT business. His speciality is the analysis and design of large-scale systems (both technical and social) through the mixture of top-down structural guidelines and bottom-up organic activity. Today, this generally means the building of communities around open source and crowd organization principles.
From 2007-2010 he was CEO of Wikidot Inc., which operates the worlds' 3rd largest wikifarm. He helped Wikidot grow from 25,000 to 500,000 users.
He is founder and partner in Kempies, a Belgian company that does R&D into semantic wikis and social websites, with a focus on the art and antique world.
He is the founder and director of iMatix Corporation, started in 1996 to promote the development of open source software engineering technologies. iMatix has undertaken commercial projects for companies such as Manpower International, Heineken, JPMorganChase, and CBR, a Belgian cement firm.
He was the main author of the AMQP/0.8 industry standard messaging protocol, developed by JPMorganChase and iMatix Corporation, and the main designer of the OpenAMQ messaging system. which went live at JPMorganChase's equities division in 2006, handling 100m messages per day for 4,000 users.
From 2005-2007 he was the president of the the FFII, a European civil society association that works for a free information infrastructure. The FFII was instrumental in stopping the advance of software patents in Europe and has been a partner to industry and politicians in key areas of innovation policy. As president of the FFII, he launched the European Software Market Association and the European Patent Conference, a major convention of patent industry experts from Europe and the United States. EUPACO-2, in May 2007, assembled more than 30 international speakers.
As a passionate and skilled programmer, he is the inventor/designer of many software engineering tools, code generators, web servers, and protocol libraries which have been used as the basis for large-scale projects. Many of these tools are distributed from the http://www.imatix.com web site as free software.
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