Matthew Langham

Current

• Founder and CTO at Indiginox GmbH
• Founder at Silentpenguin.com

Past

• Project Management at Vodafone
• Technical Director Open Source Group at S&N AG
• Project Engineer (Software) at S & N GmbH

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Matthew Langham’s Summary

Over 15 years professional experience in the IT industry. Many years of experience working on and leading IT projects for financial institutions. Introduced and established the Internet (1996) and Open Source (2000) as lines of business for my current employer.

Current goals are enabling industries such as mobile, financial and broadcasting on the use of Open Source, esablishing social software networks inside corporations using Ruby on Rails. Evangelizing Web 2.0 to European corporations. Cititzen journalism platform (Nyooze.com) built on Ruby on Rails.

Matthew Langham’s Specialties:

Open Source strategy consulting, Open Source business development, author of books and articles on Open Source, speaker on Open Source and emerging technologies at European conferences, deep knowledge of the European Open Source scene.
Committer on the Apache Cocoon project.
Professional and private interest in themes such as RSS, Weblogs, Social software, cryptography.
Entrepreneurial skills.

Matthew Langham’s Experience

• Founder and CTO

  Indiginox GmbH

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  Indiginox is a consultancy and services company focused on helping organizations understand the implications of the Open Source and software development revolutions.
  
  Indiginox's consultancy offerings target both organizations wishing to understand and use Open Source technologies, as well as software and service vendors wishing to expand into or within the European market.
  
  By working with both groups, Indiginox is able to independently broker between them - matching requirements with solutions.

• Founder

  Silentpenguin.com

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  July 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)

  Weblog with a mix of industry related and private news.

• Project Management

  Vodafone

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

  2008 — 2009 (1 year )

• Technical Director Open Source Group

  S&N AG

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  July 1999 — September 2006 (7 years 3 months)

  Leading an Open Source group inside a mid-sized German software company. Main role is business development of Open Source for commercial adoption.
  
  Author, co-author and technical reviewer for books on Open Source projects and blogging. Author of over 20 articles for German IT press on Open Source, Weblogging and RSS.

• Project Engineer (Software)

  S & N GmbH

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1991 — July 1999 (7 years 10 months)

  Project lead and developer on software projects for financial institutions. Projects include both client-sever applications as well as Internet based solutions.

Additional Information

Matthew Langham’s Groups:

•    Open Source Universe

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