Svante started in 1999 working on StarOffice in Hamburg for Sun Microsystem.
Focusing on the ODF Standard and their browser office backends, which is now TDF's ODF Toolkit.
In addition, he created the (X)HTML export for ODF via XSLT being part of LibreOffice.
Now he is a freelancer in Berlin working as co-chair and co-editor in the OASIS ODF TC and co-maintaining with Michael Stahl the ODF Toolkit.
His other hobby is being a co-editor at the CEN e-invoice norm EN16931.