Robin Berjon

Working on new products and technologies that support greater agency and shared governance.

Researching and elaborating institutions to govern the digital sphere and planetary digital infrastructure.

Taking part in the elaboration of public interest AI infrastructure.

I worked on next-generation Web architecture, seeking new approaches to digital systems that increase user agency and develop democratic governance of the Internet. I have been bridging novel protocols, notably IPFS and related self-certifying systems, to more traditional Web contexts.

Built up a team to support continued regulatory programmes (CCPA, GDPR) as well as to establish our policy positions, developed and implemented the company's privacy strategy as well as its algorithmic ethics policy, and worked in support of its broader data, advertising, and marketing strategies. I drove our approach to reforming the online advertising ecosystem through participation in tech standards and experimentation, and worked on The Times's involvement in data policy issues. Edited the W3C TAG's Privacy Principles.

Launched the data governance programme in what is a very data intensive organisation, and ran the GDPR compliance project. Began defining what the global data ecosystem should look like if independent media is to thrive in it.

Brought scholarly publishing into the internet age based on great UX, machine learning, document semantics, and intensive data crunching through ugly formats, with major publishers as clients. Architected, built, and ran many critical components using JS, Node, CouchDB, Stripe, React, Redux, and many other moving parts. Everything running inside AWS with ZeroMQ and auto-scaling.

(Employers: MIT, Keio University) Shipped the HTML5 specification (as well as a few others) and managed the W3C HTML world, trying to bring agility to standards. Founded and launched the Web Platform Tests project to define interoperability for the whole Web (current stats: 1.8+million tests, 50k+ commits, 2,700+ contributors, deployed in CI by every major browser vendor). Also launched the Web Incubator to open Web standards to a broader community.

I focused on open standards and open source for better internet governance. I managed teams, carried out research, development, prototyping, or handled standards strategy for numerous companies around the world, large and small: Samsung, Vodafone, Canon, Facebook, INRIA/ERCIM, SpinTank, Expway, IGEL, Ikivo. In 2012 I was elected to the W3C Technical Architecture Group, a small group charged with stewardship of the Web’s architecture.

Joost was high-quality, peer-based, legal TV. I worked building its rich UI and defining a widgets platform for third-parties to write extensions with.

I worked on creating a binary XML format, on an XML Schema processor, many XML languages, standard efforts in multiple organisations, and SVG-based UI for embedded devices.

A Web agency in the early, fast-moving years of the Web. I worked on many different projects, including an SVG map editor for the French Ministry of Infrastructure, education software for Audi-Volkswagen, glossy sites for Elle or Bordeaux, Web applications for Proximus, and much more.