Background
- Linux user (since 2001)
- Software Developer (since 2004)
- Hardware Hacker (since 2009)
- “Free and Open Source Software” Evangelist.
See history page for more.
Interests
Software development for embedded systems in C, while applying agile techniques such as test-driven development (TDD) and continuous integration (CI).
Model centric development approaches like Model-driven software development (MDSD) and Model-based systems development (MBSD)
Other Interests
History of … Europe, Russia, Cold War, present technologies and their founding fathers (and mothers) like Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Claude Elwood Shannon, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, Norbert Wiener, Konrad Zuse
Philosophy … all of it but especially of the 20. century
Cinema
… Allen, Almodovar, Coppola, Cronenberg, Fassbinder, Godart, Haneke, Herzog, Jarmush, Kubrick, Linklater, Lumet, Lynch, Polanski, Schlöndorf
Music
… Electronic, Techno, Experimental, Jazz, Classic, Music of Israel
Art … M.C. Escher, Max Ernst
Architecture … Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid