About Me

Interests and Experiences

Linux: I have long experience as user, admin of my personal machines and as a kernel driver developer. I started using it at the end of 1992.
Free and open-source software: I make my personal projects open-source, preferably GPL.
Embedded systems: I like working on embedded systems. Currently I earn my living programming them for the automotive industry.
Java, OSGi: Previously I worked on a car multimedia system in Java for Siemens VDO. In the interview they asked me a lot of questions about Lejos.
Data communikation, Cryptography: I helped start the Taxbird project, a GPLed implementation for declaring german taxes electronically via Elster. I'm no longer active in this project.
A system for measuring deviation from roundness: Written in C for Siemens Power Systems a long time ago, it is probably still in use.
Programming languages: Java, C, Prolog, Mozart/Oz, Python, Lisp, Haskell, Caml, ...
Human languages: I'm quite fluent in german, english, french and swedish and know a few bits of italian, dutch and icelandic.
Research and university teaching: Logic, automated deduction, term rewriting: 2000-2003 LORIA, Nancy, France, 1991-2000 Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
LEGO: I like to play with LEGO, especially LEGO robotics. You probably noticed already.

My profile (in german), in case you'd like to hire me.