Laurens is a Software Developer with experience in building microservices following the DevOps principles, using modern cloud-native technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and Spring Boot. While obtaining his Bachelor in Computer Science he first learned about the Solid Project, and has since gathered experience with the technology both in server-side contexts as well as in client-side applications. In the context of his thesis he researched ways to adapt the Solid specification to enterprise settings, while retaining the original principles of data governance and interoperability at the heart of the project. Currently, Laurens is active as ICT Solution Architect overseeing a five person development team realizing production-ready Solid use-cases for the Digitaal Vlaanderen and advises the Flemish Data Utility Company on the Solid specification.