About Me

I was born in East Germany in 1978, so it seems I'm officially a part of Generation X. Inside I feel more like Gen Y, though. :)

I lived in (what is now) the Free State of Thuringia/Germany in a small village called Tautenhain until I was 18 years old. I did cross-country skiing in my youth and generally had a good time there.

After serving my time in the military (including a three months stint near Sarajevo/Bosnia) I attended the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau to get a degree in Computer Science. I then stumbled into an internship with Skyrix Software AG, which made me move to Magdeburg for 2 years and hack on a Linux-based groupware using Objective-C. We later open-sourced this product as OpenGroupware. Those were the days!

Then once again coincidence hit, which made me move again. This time the destination was Nuremberg, where I started to work at the Bavarian State Tax Office in 2003. I don't have anything to do with actual taxes to this day, though — after being a database admin first I'm now deputy head of the data center. From 2006 to 2008 I also studied a second time to get a masters degree from the OHM Professional School in Software Engineering and Information Science.

In my free time I like to go running and biking. I did this on a more intense level for some years and even finished some long distance triathlon races (aka Ironmans). You can read more about that in my old blog. I'm still proud finishing Ironman Frankfurt 2016 in 9:17h, just missing the slot for the Ironman World Championships in Hawai'i by a few minutes.
Nowadays I just do sports to stay in shape and hope to do so for many more years.

I still live in beautiful Nuremberg, now with my wife and my son, but we are out and about whenever there's the chance. Lately we discovered van life during a longer trip through Australia and really fell in love with it.

I enjoy watching sports (American Football, Australian Rules Football, Cycling, Formula 1 etc.), playing board games (especially Marvel Champions) and dabbling around on my computer contributing to the IndieWeb. I'm also interesting in many other things like minimalism, art, lots of music styles and pop culture in general.

If you want to get to know me better, check out the main page on how to contact me as I'm not that active on social media anymore. I’d love to hear from you. If you want to meet in person, check out the events I'm planning to go to and hit me up there.