Carsten Haitzler

Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager and its libraries.[1]

Carsten Haitzler
Carsten Haitzler in light blue shirt, centre
Born (1975-11-29) 29 November 1975
Nigeria
NationalityAustralian; German
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
OccupationSoftware engineer
Websitewww.rasterman.com

Life and work

Carsten Haitzler was born in Nigeria of a German father and Finnish mother, but soon moved with his family to Germany where he lived until the age of four.

Haitzler then moved to Sydney, Australia where he attended the University of New South Wales, graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science. In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA,[2] Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems.[3]

In Sydney, Haitzler worked for Fluffy Spider Technologies where he refined, optimized and commercialized the basic Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) for Enlightenment 0.17. Fluffy Spider Technologies use some of EFL for their embedded Linux graphical user interface FancyPants.

After working for Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, he worked for Openmoko, decided that it "turned out to be a non-working thing for me, so I resigned". Since 2010 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen.[4]

Other software Haitzler has contributed to includes Electric Eyes, GTK+ theme engines, Imlib, Imlib2 and Epplets.

gollark: It might be able to host a fileshare but it probably has terrible outdated software.
gollark: Why would you use the *router* for this?
gollark: It has much better compression ratios *and* speed than gzip. Shame it's not adopted for HTTP.
gollark: Zstandard is a highly cool compression algorithm, too.
gollark: Also, I extended the DNS→comment bridge to also have a function to post in an IRC channel on APIONET. It turns out that when you post a link in Discord a bunch of different nameservers try and resolve it, presumably for embed purposes.

References
  1. Haitzler, Carsten (31 October 2012). "Seeking Enlightenment". The H online (Interview). Interviewed by Fabian A. Scherschel. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. "Carsten Haitzler departs Red Hat". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2006-09-12.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. "Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2000". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2006-09-12.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  4. Haitzler, Carsten (15 January 2012). "Interview: Carsten Haitzler". FOSDEM (Interview). Retrieved 26 June 2017.
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