Tobie Langel
Principal & Managing Partner at European Commission
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolTobie Langel is a Principal & Managing Partner who has spent 18 years helping organizations navigate and shape open technology ecosystems through his boutique consultancy, UnlockOpen. He advises major tech companies, standards bodies and policy groups—clients have included Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, the European Commission and the UN’s Digital Public Goods Alliance—bridging engineering, governance and standards. A former Facebook web-standards lead and W3C Fellow, he helped launch large cross-industry testing initiatives and co-maintained one of the web’s prominent JavaScript libraries, bringing rare hands-on credibility to high-level policy work. Tobie sits on several governance boards (including OpenJSF and W3C committees) and frequently edits and implements specs that ship in all modern browsers. His background blends deep front-end engineering, specification editing and ecosystem strategy—he pairs code-level contributions (e.g., prototypejs and tools for spec production) with pragmatic advocacy. Based in Geneva, he combines technical craftsmanship with a knack for convening multi-stakeholder consensus across industry and public sectors.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maturité type C Science, Maturité type C Science at Collège Madame de StaëlInternational School of GenevaPhilosophy English literature Fine arts, Philosophy English literature Fine arts at University of GenevaJazz Performance, Jazz Performance at McGill University
English, French, German
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
rails-i18n10
python10
user-agent10
testing10
css10
jscript10
webidl10
ember-i18n10
github-api10
web-standards10
cldr10
i18n-js10
web-framework10
w3c10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
prototypejs/prototype
Oct 2007 - Dec 2011
Prototype JavaScript framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:267 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tobie contributed significantly to the `prototypejs/prototype` repository, which involves a JavaScript framework. Their primary focus was on refactoring the `Hash` class by implementing a complete rewrite and updating its methods. They also improved performance in `String#times` and added new tests and functionalities, like `Object.isHash`. In addition, they updated the codebase by integrating various performance and usability enhancements.
javascript-frameworkjavascriptframeworkprototypenodejs
tobie/ua-parser
Sep 2010 - Nov 2014
A multi-language port of Browserscope's user agent parser.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:152 commits, 23 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tobie contributed to the `ua-parser` project, which focuses on parsing user agent strings across multiple languages. Their work included refactoring JavaScript code, adding and modifying tests, and ensuring quote consistency. They also implemented new functions for parsing user agent, OS, and device information, preserving some backwards compatibility while introducing modularity.
agentmulti-languagebrowser-detectionuser-agentparser-generator
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