Robin Berjon
Principal at Modal Foundation
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Berjon is a governance and infrastructure technologist with 17 years of experience building standards, protocols, and products that increase user agency on the web. Based in Brussels, he blends hands-on engineering (notably full‑stack work on the widely used Bikeshed spec preprocessor) with leadership roles across standards bodies and foundations, including W3C, IPFS Foundation, and Protocol Labs. He has led data governance and privacy strategy at The New York Times, launched large interoperability efforts like Web Platform Tests, and steers projects that rethink internet governance and decentralized social infrastructure. Currently a principal at Supramundane Agency and deputy director at IPFS Foundation, he focuses on aligning technical architecture with democratic governance. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic spec tooling and for bringing philosophical rigor—rooted in formal study—to thorny policy-technical tradeoffs.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, ES, Baccalauréat, ES at Collège International Stendhal2 years, Philosophy, 2 years, Philosophy at Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV)MITx 8.370.1x: Quantum Information Science I, Part 1, MITx 8.370.1x: Quantum Information Science I, Part 1 at MITx CoursesBac ES Mention Bien, Bac ES Mention Bien at Lycée International Stendhal
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
html10
web-development10
python9
css8
markdown7
markdown-it7
githubaction-workflow6
w3c6
svg6
web-standards6
vector-graphics6
github6
terminology6
gradient6
github-ci6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
speced/bikeshed
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
:bike: A preprocessor for anyone writing specifications that converts source files into actual specs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on enhancing the "bikeshed" project, a specification preprocessor. Their contributions included setting up default properties for webspecs, creating and improving header and footer templates, and integrating the repository extraction. The user also addressed bugs and made stylistic improvements to the generated documentation, specifically for Web Platform Specs. These changes involved modifications to HTML templates, Python scripts, and the use of online assets.
preprocessor
darobin/ttc
Mar 2010 - Aug 2010
Contributions:39 commits in 5 months
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