I am a software engineer and hobby designer focused on cutting edge technologies and minimalist design works. I have a foible for data, engineering productivity, security, and highly available, performant systems. In my free time I enjoy programming as -- much if not even more -- than during working hours. I spend it on compiler building and programming language theory while listening to a lot of obscure but beautiful music. That is, if I am not playing games or watching movies and series with my lovely wife. ♥

I love free knowledge and consequently open source. I was very active in Wikipedia for a long time, and still am active in many communities like Gradle, Kotlin, or at StackOverflow where I try to help other engineers around the world. Whenever time allows it, I try to contribute to projects out there and I have contributed to a varying extend to projects like Kotlin, Gradle, OpenJDK, Protobuf, Envoy, JUnit, GitHub Actions Runner Controller, nginx, PHP, Symfony, Drupal, …