About Myself
I was born in the mid 70's in Berlin, Germany. Already at the beginning of middle school I grew very much interested in computers and programing, writing little games in BASIC on the VIC20 (an, even then, very old computer - I had fun anyway). The internship we had to do in 9th grade, I did in a physical research facility called Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, where I wrote an ATARI pascal program for measuring the quality of a laser over a long active period. That was my first really useful program, and I'm still very proud of it :).After school I investigated several possibilities and decided to study mathematics, a very good choice by the way. I concentrated on differential geometry and mathematical visualization, and was part of a team that created a program for mathematical visualization called JavaView, while I was a student. Finally I received my diploma (Dipl. math. techn.). My diploma thesis was about analyzing vector fields with a discrete version of Hodge-Helmholtz-Decomposition.
I stayed at university as a research assistant for two years, first at the Zuse-Institute Berlin, then at FU Berlin, working in cooperation with Tebis AG on curvature based modeling and design of curves and surfaces. I realized that I didn't want to stay at university, though, so I looked for a different future.
When I came over a job offer from Trolltech, I knew the name and their main product Qt only casually from Linux and the KDE Desktop. But they seemed to be a bunch of very competent and nice people, so I applied and, well, now I'm a happy troll, creating cool software for a living. And I can confirm that they are a bunch of very competent and nice people :).
In my spare time I love singing, playing the piano, Aikido, roleplaying games and old handcrafts like carving and tablet weaving.