Van Lindberg
Co-Founder CEO at Model Monster
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolVan Lindberg is a hybrid technologist and lawyer who builds defensible AI and open source governance from the system level rather than the model level, currently leading Model Monster as Co-Founder and CEO while running a boutique AI/open source law practice and OSPO-as-a-service. With 30 years of coding experience and 25 years practicing law, he designs frameworks—like CORE—that translate system architecture into legally actionable risk assessments so legal, compliance, and engineering teams govern from a single blueprint. A former VP and Associate General Counsel at Rackspace who negotiated nine-figure deals and managed IP litigation, he also chaired the Python Software Foundation and helped steer OpenStack and Docker community governance. Author of O'Reilly’s "Intellectual Property and Open Source" and drafter of the Cryptographic Autonomy License, he brings rare fluency in reading code, drafting licenses, and arguing policy before technical and legal audiences. Based in San Antonio, he focuses on pragmatic, production-first AI liability management for GCs, CISOs, and AI leads who need defensible, auditable controls.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
JD, Law, JD, Law at BYU Law SchoolBS, Computer Engineering/History (Double Major), BS, Computer Engineering/History (Double Major) at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (98)
python10
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pypi10
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markdown9
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sca9
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sbom9
licensing9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
VanL/psf-bylaws
May 2017 - Jul 2021
PSF Bylaws in markdown format
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 2 months
markdown
VanL/opencasebook
Nov 2018 - Jun 2023
Open Source Casebook
Contributions:18 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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