Alexios Zavras
Chief Open Source Compliance Officer at independent freelancer
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexios Zavras is a veteran open source licensing and software legal compliance leader with over 10 years at Intel, currently serving as Chief Open Source Compliance Officer in Munich. He designed and implemented company-wide Software Legal Compliance frameworks and the supporting infrastructure, reviewed IP for acquisitions, and trained hundreds of engineers on FOSS licensing and IP risk. His background blends deep technical systems and networking experience from academia and industry with public-sector digital transformation work as a special advisor to Greece’s Ministry of Finance. A PhD computer scientist who also completed executive education at Harvard Kennedy School, he quietly bridges legal, technical and organizational domains—turning complex licensing theory into practical, auditable processes used at scale.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Leading Innovating and Negotiating Executive Education, Leading Innovating and Negotiating Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy SchoolMSc Computer Sciences, MSc Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonPhD Computer Science (Electrical Engineering), PhD Computer Science (Electrical Engineering) at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, French, German, English
Github Skills (139)
ontology10
sbom10
specification10
combinations10
markdown10
ietf10
rdf10
rfc10
licensing10
xslt10
spdx10
parsing10
schematron10
xml10
sarif9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zvr/Sharing-creates-value
Feb 2020 - Mar 2024
This repo realizes the idea that OSS compliance activities will be less expensive by applying OSS principles
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
oss-complianceprinciplesosssecurityactivities
spdx/spdx-3-model
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The model for the information captured in SPDX version 3 standard.
Contributions:256 reviews, 20 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 3 months
linux-foundationsbomsoftware-bill-of-materialssoftware-package-data-exchangesoftware-transparency
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