Chris is Open Source Officer at Bosch Research and member of Bosch's corporate Open Source Expert Team. Since joining Bosch Research a decade ago Chris has been working on a wide range of open source topics from compliance to strategy. Currently, he focuses on working with internal teams to help with their open source contributions. To support that work and to reduce some of the friction encountered he has begun to automate the contribution lifecycle. Additionally,
Chris has been a member of the research project "Economy of Things", which has been working towards well-governed decentralized systems for a digital economy. Prior to that he's been working in the automotive sector, mainly developing test automation software for hardware-in-the-loop testbenches.