Thomas is currently an active contributor and maintainer for the RIOT operating system and works as freelancer and advisor for companies as well as on several other projects in the IoT space. Driven by a strong belief in open standards and open source, he engages in the standardization of networking protocols for the IoT in the IETF and regularly participates in interoperability testing events by ETSI. In an effort to convey open standards and their advantages and increase awareness of open source software in general and RIOT in particular, he holds presentations and workshops in small hacker and maker spaces as well as bigger meetups and conferences.