About

About Me

My dad introduced me to an Epson PC with an Intel 8088 processor on which I've learned to write spaghetti code in GW-BASIC. This started my fascination with programming languages. This fascination led me to various languages following different programming paradigms. I especially enjoyed Pascal, C, Java, Python, LISP, and Scala.

Since then, I’ve been developing software and building infrastructure professionally for almost 25 years and I’ve seen many things in IT changing drastically while others staying very much the same. I’ve seen new things become old and old things become new again. In a way, there's always something new and old to learn.

Today, I’m interested in all things coding, devops, and site reliability. I’m also very much into software engineering and agile software development processes. I write most of my code in different DSLs like Ansible and Terraform. When in doubt, I drop back to my currently favorite language Rust.

I’m currently living in Germany. If you like to get in touch, you can find me on     .

About My Work

During my professional career I’ve had the opportunity to work on a variety of challenging projects as freelancer, consultant, scientific researcher, and product developer.

My first paid job in IT has been with a local Internet Service Provider in 1994 where I managed Linux and Windows NT servers. Since then I’ve worked for Nokia, T-Mobile, Metro AG, Metro Systems, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Norman (now AVG), the German national researcher society Fraunhofer and especially its department for Cyber Analysis and Defense, the German Research Foundation (DFG), and other exciting companies, organizations, and projects.

Currently, I’m Chief Information Officer (CIO) and board member at Scopevisio as well as Managing Director at CenterDevice, where we develop cutting-edge cloud-based software services for enterprises.

I hold a masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Bonn where I also received my PhD. I’m a certified data protection officer as well as information security officer.

About This Site

This site has been build with the static site generator Gatsby and is hosted at Netlify. The theme is based on Alec Lomas' portfolio website. You can learn more about the individual components used for the implementation as well as about the development and infrastructure tools in the colophon.

Legal Notice and Privacy Policy
This site has a legal notice (English) and an Impressum (Deutsch) as well as a privacy policy (English) and a Datenschutzerklärung (Deutsch).