[7] He started to develop software in 1991 and installed his first Linux operating system in 1993[8] after which he eventually joined as a webmaster for the GNU Project.

[4] In the late 1990s, he spent some time at the MIT AI Labs where he met with Richard Stallman and others from the Free Software Foundation, joining them for The Bazaar conference in New York.

In 2001, he was a founding member of the Free Software Foundation Europe[3] and took up a role as vice president on 22 November 2001 when former vice president Loïc Dachary took a step back to focus on GNU Savannah.

[12] His company Commons Machinery was featured as one of the 12 winners of Tech All Stars 2014,[13] a competition of the European Commission's and Neelie Kroes's Digital Agenda.

He married Julia Velkova, a media researcher and member of Internet Society Bulgaria, at the Ice hotel in Sweden on 8 March 2013.