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 large-scale IT architectures, and communities around open source and crowd organization principles.
He is responsible together with Martin Sustrik for the ZeroMQ (ØMQ) project, a high performance library for messaging and concurrency. ZeroMQ was built by iMatix Corporation, and then opened to an active community of open source contributors and developers. He is the author of ØMQ - The Guide, author of the czmq C binding, and maintainer of the official ZeroMQ packages.
From 2007-2010 he was CEO of Wikidot Inc., which operates the worlds' 3rd largest wikifarm. He co-founded Wikidot Inc. and helped it grow from 25,000 to 500,000 users.
He is co-founder and partner in Kempies, a Belgian company that does R&D into semantic wikis and social websites. Kempies is currently launching a new mobile product for social geotagging.
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, DowJones Company, and JPMorganChase.
He was the main author and editor of the AMQP messaging protocol from versions 0.1 to 0.9.1, developed at JPMorganChase by 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, and still runs there today (in 2011). Today OpenAMQ also powers the DowJones Industrial Average.
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.
He is the author of many software engineering tools, code generators, web servers, and protocol libraries that have been used as the basis for large-scale projects.
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