
After years inside proprietary enterprise software, Corey Hulen made a sharp turn toward open source. The result is a career built around a plain but demanding idea: the people doing critical work should control the place where they talk about it.

From a Florida governor's communications office to Mattermost's first C-suite marketing post, Leigh Dow has built a career translating complicated systems for people who cannot afford confusion.

A broken chat service trapped his game studio's data. Ian Tien turned that frustration into an open-source collaboration company now built for teams that cannot afford to lose control.

From clinical-trial software to Digital Guardian to eSHARE, the Tufts-trained engineer keeps returning to one stubborn question: how can important information move without slipping out of its owner’s control?