Jan Ainali
Chief Executive Officer at Open By Default
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan Ainali is a mission-driven CEO and open movement veteran with 11+ years of experience helping public and private organisations adopt open source, open data and open knowledge practices. He founded and leads Open By Default after stewardship work at Foundation for Public Code, where he maintained the Standard for Public Code and created the Governance Game to make code governance tangible. His background blends systems engineering, product and UX design, and policy advising—most recently shaping digital policy in the European Parliament—so he comfortably bridges technical, organisational and regulatory domains. Known for scaling small organisations (doubling Wikimedia Sverige’s budget while CEO) he excels at turning openness into practical, sustainable workflows. Based in Amsterdam, he seeks impact-aligned work often framed by the Sustainable Development Goals. A longtime Wikipedian and tinkerer, he pairs hands-on tooling pragmatism with a deep commitment to public value.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Courses, Various, Courses, Various at University of SkövdeComputer Science, Computer Science at Forsmark schoolSocial media strategy, Social media strategy at Social Media AcademyBachelor of Science, Innovation and design engineering, Bachelor of Science, Innovation and design engineering at Karlstad University
Swedish, English, Norwegian, Danish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
data-manipulation10
governance10
collaboration10
government-data10
commons10
wikipedia10
photography10
wikimedia-commons10
decision-making10
data-wrangling10
social-media10
wikidata10
kotlin-android10
fact10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Ainali/ideas
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
publiccodenet/blog
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Home to the Blog for Public Code, where blog posts are planned and collectively written.
Contributions:141 reviews, 494 commits, 380 PRs in 3 years 2 months
blog-postsjekyllpoststypescriptpublic-code
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