Steven Pemberton
Chair at declarative.amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorSteven Pemberton is a veteran researcher and standards leader based at CWI in Amsterdam, with over four decades in computing and 11 years in his current professional scope. As Chair of the Declarative Foundation Amsterdam and multiple W3C groups—including long-standing leadership of HTML and Forms activities—he has shaped web standards and practical markup design. He combines academic rigor with public engagement as an author, speaker, and occasional broadcaster, and cofounded CHI Nederland to connect human–computer interaction communities. His work spans research, standards advocacy, and community organization, often influencing how web technologies are specified and implemented rather than just coded. Notably, he maintains sustained leadership across evolving web standards bodies, a pattern that underscores deep institutional knowledge and a rare continuity in web governance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
551reputation
73kreached
4answers
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Github Skills (58)
inspector9
xml9
xquery8
schematron8
xsd8
testing7
xslt7
xspec7
xml-schema7
api7
unit-test7
behavior-driven-development7
html6
webserver6
ssh6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spemberton/xcontents
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
invisibleXML/ixml
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Invisible XML
Contributions:2 reviews, 61 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
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