Jean-Georges Perrin (born 1971) is an IT serial-entrepreneur from

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. First French citizen to become an IBM Champion in 2009, along with Jean-Marc Blaise.,, he is now one of the 30 Lifetime IBM Champions. Perrin is a recognized author (self-published,

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, and

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Career

Perrin is an IT software engineer, lecturer, and serial entrepreneur. In 1995, he took part in the creation of Pandemonium, one of France's first commercial

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to be located outside of the Paris area, later acquired by ISION. In 2002, he co-founded Awoma, an ISV specialized in making Java development easier. In 2006, he founded GreenIvory, a pioneer in Content Marketing tools. GreenIvory France and GreenIvory Luxembourg closed in January 2014, GreenIvory America closed a little later. In 2015, Perrin joined 2CRSI Corporation as

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(COO)., Since 2016, Perrin is consulting in software engineering, big data, and

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. In 2021, Perrin joined

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and since then focuses on

data mesh Data mesh is a sociotechnical approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-serve design (in a software development perspective), and borrows Eric Evans’ theory of domain-driven design and Manuel Pa ...

IBM and IIUG

Perrin was elected at the Board of Directors of

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in 2002. Until 2017, we was the longest standing elected board member of

after Stuart Litel and the first non-US citizen elected to this board. In January 2024, his IBM Champion title was renewed for the 16th consecutive time.

Bitol and The Linux Foundation

In November 2023, Perrin contributes Bitol to

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. The mission is to foster a set of standards to define data contracts, data products, and more in order to tackle multiple data engineering challenges, such as data normalization, ensuring the relevance of documentation, establishing service-level expectations, simplifying data and tool integration, and promoting a data product-oriented approach. The first project issued from Bitol is an

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for data contracts called Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS).

Publications and conferences

Perrin has contributed to the defunct DB2 Magazine, to The Futurist magazine co-author with Elizabeth D. Leone. Perrin co-authored with Frederic Collet-Hahn a book on the C programming language in August 1992, while a student at the now-

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. More recently, he authored two ebooks on

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. In 2020, he published Spark in Action, second edition covering

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with

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and

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, and Scala through

, the foreword was written by

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’s Rob D. Thomas. In 2023, he published a book for kids titled Data Mesh for all ages focusing on

for a vast audience. The book has been translated in several languages. In January 2024, Perrin contributes to Nick Tunes's Architecture Modernization at Manning Publications Co. In September 2024, he publishes with Eric Broda Implementing Data Mesh at O'Reilly. During 2024, Perrin also self-published Data Contract for all ages and Data Products for all ages. Perrin participates in numerous conferences and lectures at various schools and universities, including the

, Spark Summit., and more. Perrin is a regular speaker at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC.

Other recognitions

In 2012, Perrin was selected as one of 60 Alsatian entrepreneurs whose profiles were published in the '' Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace'' on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of ADIRA, an agency that supports business in Alsace. In 2024, after leaving

in 2023, Perrin was named a PayPal Champion.

References

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