About

Here's some stuff about me.

If you are looking for a CV as a PDF please see /about/cv for a recent¹ print-friendly version (simply use your browser's print function, it should work decently). Here I'll just try to summarize the important bits for a general idea.

Education

I'm from central Berlin but I got all my education past the Abitur at the University of Bremen in Germany.
Initially I went for political science but quickly figured out that it wasn't for me and pivoted to computer science.
CompSci was a good fit; I finished my Bachelor's during the pandemic and am currently in the Master's degree program.

Work Experience

During my undergrad I worked as a teaching assistant (TA; "Tutor" in German) at the university for the following courses:

• "Technische Informatik 2"
  (operating systems concepts in Unix, concurrency)
• "Technische Grundlagen der Informatik"
  (computer architecture and basic operating systems concepts)

Since 2021 I've been working at OTARIS doing mostly software development as well as some pentesting and some consulting work with an emphasis on software security.

Here's the gist of my work experience.

Practical Experience

But not all of life is work and formal education; if they only let me program for work and university I'd be miserable, as I enjoy working on software on my own time.

Over the years I've worked on and off on a few personal projects and in my opinion, the history of projects one has been involved in reflects experiences much better than the common CV categories. It should be obvious that the later projects are much more fleshed out than earlier ones. So here it goes (this looks significantly better on a wider viewport with grid support so on your device it shouldshould not be shown right):

Programming Languages

Here's how I would order the languages that I am fairly proficient in:

As you can tell, I'm mostly interested in systems programming languages. This is not to say however, that systems programming or backend is all I've got experience with, as I have become quite fond of using Rust via WASM for web apps, primarily via Leptos.

Of course I also have a lot of experience shell scripting (primarily Bash); I have also done a bit of embedded development in C and have some basic knowledge of Javascript and Lua.

But I doubt a job working with any languages not in the top few of my lists above would be a good fit for me (or vice versa).

If you would like to look at some work of mine in those languages I would encourage you to look at my 🚧 projects. Please bear in mind that this is only a part of my work as a lot of my experience comes from working on closed-source projects at work.