Ortwin Donak received a Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Applied Science in Trier/Germany and a Master in Process Management at the University of Nürtingen–Geislingen.
After his Studies, he worked as team leader backend development at Blue Orbit e-Business AG in Munich/Germany and later on, in the same city, as technical section leader and IT consultant at the Partners for Management GmbH of which he also became an associate.
He is an R&D manager at the public research center Henri Tudor and the coordinator of the Luxembourgish Free and Open Source Innovation Platform. He is leading multi-party projects in the field of Free and Open Source Software and the healthcare sector. In addition to that he is a tutor at the university of Nancy.