In a nutstell: I'm a software guy with a phd in computer science and robotics (dnb, upress, Amazon). I love my family, hiking, gardening, hacking, and finding ways around cloud solutions for things that should not at all be exposed to the hostility of the net (like, for example, "smart" home solutions).

Back in the days, around 1995, a friend and I had operated a ''Bulletin Board System'' (EXCESS BBS, NetzProjekt Weingarten) and a local FidoNet hub. Around that time, the Internet started gaining tracktion for a wider public. npw.net in its current form as a communication service was born in 1997. Looking back those were crazy times. It was just before everything changed.

Between 1999 and 2010 I was a member of and active contributor to the RoboCup community. Started in University as a team member of The Ulm Sparrows. A few years later, around 2005, a friend and I then founded the Carpe Noctem (Cassel) team at the University of Kassel. And with that changes the research schedule of our supervisor slightly (adding autonomous robotics to a distributed systems background). I left the team in 2009 after handing in my thesis and relocating a bit further north to join the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen. Our students basically took over and successfully continued the journey until around 2018.

In 2012, I traded academia for the medical device industry by joining GE HealthCare. My focus area is DevSecOps, ranging from IT infrastructure to product vulnerability management. And software development. Back to the roots, basically.

As of today, I'm a professional software developer for Linux and Windows. On a daily basis I'm working with C++, Python, Groovy, Bash, and Powershell. But also C, C#, Java, Javascript/Typescript, Rust, and similar languages got covered.

The areas that usually keep me busy professionally are build and test automation (mainly Jenkins), data privacy and security (applied cryptography, privacy and security requirements engineering, static/dynamic application security testing, vulnerability monitoring), Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) generation and management, architecting/desiging/developing distributed software architectures, infrastructure architecture (from bare metal to virtual), hypervisor and container based approaches (KVM, LXC, containerd/Docker/podman, ...) mainly on Linux, Proxmox/Ceph cluster maintenance.

I used to be a former head of research group at the DFKI GmbH (Robotics Innovation Centre Bremen), project leader at DFKI and REC GmbH, responsible for programme development and project acquisition (BMBF, BMWi, BMVBS, DFG, EU) at DFKI, chair of RoboCup tournaments (GO MSL 2008/2009), founder, team lead, and member of RoboCup Middle-Size League Team Carpe Noctem of Kassel University.

Specialties: DevSecOps, professional software development, software architect, distributed systems, test automation and build management, data privacy and security, network setup/administration/maintenance, virtualisation (Proxmox/plain KVM/Xen/ESXi and desktop virtualisation) administration and management, mobile robotics, cooperative robotics.