I am a software developer and agile coach at andrena objects ag, a software company in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Previously I was development lead in customer projects and on software products at Innoopract, a German software company that is focused on the Open Source platform Eclipse. Among other things, I was the chief architect of Yoxos, the Eclipse distribution. I have been specializing in Eclipse Plug-In development (both IDE and RCP) for more than eight years, and have published articles in developer journals and given conference talks on the topic (some of these are online in the Papers section). I also worked for a time at Nero, as a process manager and project management coach, much with focus on agile software development practices.

In addition to my work centered around Eclipse and Java, I have been interested in functional programming, especially the Haskell programming language for a number of years, and I have been active in Open Source projects in that area (there are links to each of these projects on the Projects page).

I studied various subjects, including philosophy, computer science, literature and music (composition) at several universities in Germany, including Jena University, Hagen University and the Liszt School of Music in Weimar. (Not all of these studies were aimed at a formal degree.) I hold an A-grade Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Literature.