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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Profile

Please see my about page for details.

I live in Berlin and grew up near the wonderful city of Heidelberg. Right now I'm 23 years of age.

I have (somewhat) professional profiles here and here. I've a passion for photography and upload some of my photos to flickr (+grab).

I wish I'd update my blog now and then. There's a profile about music and twitter, too. Even on my first, recent and most recent Marathons.

What I do

I'm in charge of development at Foren-City. After relaunching our brand we're working on a completely new platform with all focus on simplicity and user-centered design.

I'm studying IT Systems Engineering at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany.

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.

During my five semesters as a student I've been doing lots of projects: We covered artificial intelligence, clustering and data visualization in Ligageschichte.de. We're in the middle of building usable interfaces for small devices in Human Computer Interaction, and developed a scalable Aggregating Discovery Service for RFID data.

In the meanwhile I did some other fun projects. To name two examples: Muxfind employs Latent Semantic Indexing and collective intelligence for searching music. Flickr Grab creates quick overview over Flickr photos.