Hi, I'm Jan,

a software architect and user interface designer.
This is my personal website and portfolio.

I've been designing, constructing and planning websites for a years. This site features some of my work. Please e-mail me any time with any questions at all.

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About me

I do software engineering consulting for a number of companies and many interesting topics. I've done engineering at Azumo, spent a few weeks at SAP and a longer project at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California. I also helped relaunching Foren-City on a completely new social community platform with all focus on simplicity and user-centered design.

Please see my about page for details.

You find some of the photos i'm passionate about on my Flickr (try Flickrgrab!). I update my blog now and then. LastFM aggregated the music I like, and I live on Twitter. More data on the web includes the first, second and recent, and most recent Marathons.

Research Background

I just received my Bachelor's in Computer Science in August '09 from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. I'm planning on going back in three months for a Master's degree in Fall of 2010.

During my fifth and sixth semester all students of the HPI work on a year-long project with a corporate partner. My project revolves on a hybrid database architecture. We're joining SAP in researching how their in-memory database TREX can be used for both live transaction processing and reporting at the same time.

projects

Please see my portfolio page for details.

In college, we covered artificial intelligence, clustering and data visualization in Ligageschichte.de. We built usable interfaces for small devices in Human Computer Interaction, and developed a scalable Aggregating Discovery Service for RFID data.

Of course, that's not enough. So just two examples of my private projects: Muxfind employs Latent Semantic Indexing to help discover music by collective intelligence; Flickr Grab creates quick overview over Flickr photos.