Sander is excited about helping open source software projects take advantage of all the benefits that open development can bring. He often presents on the best practices of open development at events and is involved in the organisation of workshops and conferences such as OSS Watch's Open Source Junction and TransferSummit. He is specifically interested in projects in the fields of Virtual Research platforms, Big Data and Linked Data. Before joining OSS Watch, Sander had a career as a Java Software Engineer with commercial software companies. This experience has proven useful in advising academic projects on how to engage the business sector.