About Van Lindberg.

BIO · 05.01

Van Lindberg runs Process Mechanics. Thirty years writing code and twenty-five years practicing law; he has always seen the two as the same job.

Van developed the CORE Framework, an information model for AI systems that supports policy evaluation and risk assessment, and founded Model Monster, the platform that puts CORE into production. He also runs OSPOCO, an OSPO-as-a-service practice for companies that need an open source program but not yet a full-time team.

Earlier in his career he served as Associate General Counsel for Rackspace and negotiated nine-figure licensing and business deals. He also built a substantial patent prosecution practice representing technology companies in portfolio strategy and enforcement.

Van authored O'Reilly's "Intellectual Property and Open Source," co-edited Google's Open Source casebook, drafted the OSI-approved Cryptographic Autonomy License, and co-chairs PLI's annual Artificial Intelligence CLE. He was named one of "America's Top 12 Techiest Attorneys" by the ABA Journal and recognized as one of the IAM Strategy 300. He is past chair of the Python Software Foundation, past board member for OpenStack (now the OpenInfra Foundation), and was the first chair of the community advisory council for Docker.