In a nutshell: 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 to work around cloud solutions for things that should not be exposed to the hostility of the net (such as "smart" home solutions).

Back in the day, around 1995, a friend and I operated a ''Bulletin Board System'' (EXCESS BBS, NetzProjekt Weingarten) and a local FidoNet hub. Around that time, the Internet started gaining traction with the 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. I started at university as a team member of The Ulm Sparrows. A few years later, around 2005, a friend and I founded the Carpe Noctem (Cassel) team at the University of Kassel. This slightly shifted the research focus of our supervisor towards autonomous robotics, building on a distributed systems background. I left the team in 2009 after submitting my thesis and relocating further north to join the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen. Our students took over and successfully continued the journey until around 2018.

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

Today, I'm a professional software developer for Linux and Windows. On a daily basis, I work with C++, Python, Groovy, Bash, and PowerShell. I also have experience with C, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, and similar languages.

Professionally, I am primarily focused on 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/designing/developing distributed software architectures, infrastructure architecture (from bare metal to virtual), hypervisor and container-based approaches (KVM, LXC, containerd/Docker/Podman, etc.) mainly on Linux, and Proxmox/Ceph cluster maintenance.

I was previously a Research Group Leader at the DFKI GmbH (Robotics Innovation Center Bremen), a Project Leader at DFKI and REC GmbH, and was responsible for program development and project acquisition (BMBF, BMWi, BMVBS, DFG, EU) at DFKI. I also served as Chair of RoboCup tournaments (GO MSL 2008/2009), and was a founder, team lead, and member of the RoboCup Middle-Size League Team Carpe Noctem at the University of Kassel.

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