About

Passionate engineer – Curiosity and the urge to understand how things work have been driving me since childhood. I love to share my enthusiasm with others. To me, sustainability, solidarity, diversity, freedom of expression, free knowledge and access to open technology are key to a better life for all of us.

Experience

  • 20 years professional web, desktop, mobile & embedded development
  • Design, implementation and maintenance of complex IT architectures
  • Supervision of complete product life cycles
  • Recruiting, training and leading agile teams
  • Designing workshops on creative topics using digital tools
  • IT trainings for kids and adults
  • Working geographically distributed in culturally lierse contexts

Work

Wikibase Suite
Senior Software Engineer

Wikibase Suite provides the software stack powering Wikidata as a production ready self-hosting solution. In a cross functional team, we adapt, test, package and release the software built originally for internal purposes as a suite of tools matching the requirements of external organizations.

2021 - 2023
Electronic Health Record system Dotbase
Senior Software Engineer

As part of a team of medical professionals, user experience designers and software engineers, I contributed to the development of an Electronic Health Record system for Charité Berlin and other hospitals.

2021
Education Community Platform
Software Engineer, Co-Founder, Co-Product Manager

As a full stack developer, I implemented backend, frontend and devops infrastructure of a social network for education professionals. In my role as co-product manager, I contributed to the product design of the young startup.

Digital education for primary school kids
Creative Technology Trainer

As a trainer, I developed content, built and managed technical infrastructure and lead remote and on-site workshops for school classes, teachers and other groups on topics such as programming, game design, robotics, film production, Minecraft, and more.

2011 - 2017
Solar home systems for off grid households in East Africa
Head of Embedded Software Engineering

As one of the first engineers, I have seen Mobisol grow from 5 to 700 employees. I contributed to the design and implementation of the full technology stack, recruiting, training and managing teams, as well as to the setup of the company in Rwanda and Tanzania. My main focus was leading a team developing the embedded firmware that powers over 50,000 solar home systems in the field.

Hasso Plattner Institute (SAP)
Working student, Software Engineer

At the Computer Graphics Chair of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner I created tools and libraries to ease the development of 3D computer graphics applications for various platforms and different multi touch input devices. This software was used in several projects of other students and staff members as well as for my own masters thesis.

Custom web and desktop applications for clients
Self-employment, Software Engineer

During university I ran a side business developing websites and custom desktop applications for clients. Some of the projects I did with partner designers and additional developers.

2003 - 2013
GPS based vehicle tracking and fleet management
Lead Software Engineer

As one of the lead engineers at ARTECO, I contributed to two generations of the entire technology stack consisting of web, desktop and mobile frontends, backend on co-located and cloud servers as well as firmware on embedded devices in customers' vehicles.

Education

University of Potsdam – Hasso Plattner Institute (SAP)
Grade: very good
Specialization: Embedded Systems, Computer Graphics
Final Thesis: Assisting Navigation Techniques for Virtual 3D City Models
University of Potsdam – Hasso Plattner Institute (SAP)
Grade: good
Final Thesis: Sophie Server: Social, web based, book reading platform
Oberstufenzentrum KIM Berlin Wedding
Specialization: Media and Technology, English

Languages

  • German (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Spanish (basic)
  • French (basic)
  • Swahili (beginner)
  • Thai (beginner)