Thomas Steenbergen is the Head of Open Source Program Office at EPAM Systems (www.epam.com). He is a steering committee member and one of the co-founders/organizers of the European Chapter of the TODO group and co-founder of the OpenChain Automation Work Group - both industry working groups where companies collaborate to address shared open source challenges. He is also an active contributor to the SPDX ISO specification for over 5 years, helping to better match what developers find in code and incorporate security (leading the Defects WG). As a core contributor to the OSS Review Toolkit (ORT), he enables highly automated open source policy checks in CI/CD by providing easy, open-source & scalable tooling and to share results in open standard (SBoM) formats. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at various global open source conferences and is always happy to start a conversation around anything open source. Thomas has held a variety of technical lead roles over the past 15 years across the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany.
Thomas Steenbergen has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 166: Thomas Steenbergen & Josep Prat at FOSS Backstage 2023
April 11th, 2023 | 46 mins 7 secs
Thomas talks about OSS Review Toolkit and the three important aspects of open-source software. Josep shares the importance of diversity in open-source projects, and the Plankton program at Aiven for people who want to do contributions in their free time.