Personal Data

Date/Place of Birth
06.04.1969, Rendsburg, Germany
Languages
German, English and French
Education
1990 - 1997
Studies in physics, mathematics and computer science at the
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf / Germany and the
Université Nantes / France (1994-95)
German Diploma in Mathematics Cum Laude
1988 - 1990
Civil service
1981 - 1988
High schools in St. Peter-Ording and Langenfeld/Rhld.
1979 - 1981
Elementary school in Scarsdale/NY,USA
1975 - 1988
Elementary schools in Schwalbach/Taunus and Langenfeld/Rhld.

2012 - present
Member of the EuroPython Society Board of Directors.
2012
Started Python Meeting Düsseldorf meeting series together with Charlie Clark.
2011
Co-organized the first PyCon DE conference in Leipzig, Germany.
2010
Continued to lead the initiave to create a German PyCon, after Holger Krekel's initial idea at EuroPython 2010.
2010 - present
Member of the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors.
2002 - present
eGenix.com application design, project management and project work for various large and small companies in the US, UK, Switzerland and Germany.
2002 - 2004
Member of the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors.
2003
Co-organized the EuroPython 2003 conference, again in Charleroi, Belgium.
2002
Executive committee member of the first EuroPython conference in Charleroi, Belgium. As of 2012, I'm still helping out with the EuroPython conference selection process and organization.
January 2000 - 2002
Product development: "eGenix Application Server / eGenix Service Engine"
Continued development of the work started as "Prometheus" under a new name: a full blown object oriented web application server based on highly efficient Open Source technologies such as Linux and Python.
Project "www.steilmann.com"
First customer of the eGenix Application Server software.
2001
Founding member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF).
January 2000
Started a new company "eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH" with the aim of marketing and selling software, skills and services to IT companies with special focus on Python.
2000
Contract work for CNRI, USA, to implemented the initial Python Unicode implementation. Continued to maintain the Unicode implementation until 2011.
July 1997 - December 1999
Product development: 'Prometheus'
Designing and implementing a framework to simplify the efforts needed to install, run and maintain web-sites that depend on highly dynamic content as well as structured information.
Project 'www.lemburg.com'
Test-bed implementation for Prometheus.
Several smaller CGI scripting jobs.
1997
Python Core Developer.
1995 - July 1997
Project 'FashionForum', a German internet site (fashion-forum.de) devoted to fashion, hosted by Point-Of-Sale GmbH Monheim.
CGI based applications, including a proprietary small database, query facilities, access control mechanisms, hit statistic analysis tools and several web-based database end-user and administration interfaces. The project included setting up and configuring the web-server hardware at the ISP.
Project 'EuroStyle' for EuroStyle GmbH Monheim (eurostyle.de).
Implemention of a small eCommerce application where customers can order products online.
1994
Started to work with Python.
1993
Formed a company: IKDS (Information and Communication Design). Started working as a consultant, IBM being my first customer with the aim of continuing the work on KIOSK/2 and intergrating it with a new display engine.
1991, 1992, 1993
Internships at IBM Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf
Design and realisation of a DB/2 based employee development database (MEP/2) on OS/2 with PM-based GUI written in C.
Project work on KIOSK/2 (now called Kontoservices/2), porting a DOS based C application to OS/2. This included designing a PM-based GUI interface and a communication protocol/API to separate the display part of the application from the transaction mechanism.
1987 - 1988
Part-time job at CGI-INTERPROGRAM GmbH Langenfeld.
Conception and realisation of an application to aid in recording and reporting working hours written in Pascal.
Project work on 'QUALI' (skill database) under Adabas using NATURAL.

Intensive use:
Application design
OO-based programming (acquisition, frameworks, persistence, components)
Python (being a core developer involved in the language's development process; more infos)
C / C++
Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows
AJAX, HTML, XML, Javascript
ODBC database interfacing
SQL programming (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SAP DB, MySQL, DB/2, Adabas)
Unix web server setup and administration (Apache)
Remote maintenance of Linux servers in general via SSH or secure web interface
 
Other skills:
Java, Pascal, Lisp, Basic, x86 Assembler, Prolog, Natural, Tcl/Tk
Administration of SQL databases
OS/2
LaTeX
Computer Interests
Frameworks and component oriented programming
New OO-technologies like acquisition and patterns
ORBs, e.g. CORBA, ILU, SOAP
Network protocols and standards
Network security
Programming language design and use