Jos van den Oever studied molecular sciences and currently works in bioinformatics. He has used his long experience as a C++ programmer and KDE user to improve the search engine Kat. After development of this project stopped, he decided to start a more ambitious project then the previous small programs he has written for KDE. He hopes his ideas and code will be picked up by many projects and tries to make it as fast, small and modular as possible for this purpose. In addition, he uses his experience in semantic technologies to collaborate in the kde-nepomuk project.