I have spent the past year in random places in Africa and South-East Asia. During my time travelling to places like Ethiopia, Thailand and Vietnam, I helped grow a nice little advertising startup in Berlin. We ended up with a scalable platform for online advertising that supports a couple of hundred million impressions per month while still delivering real-time analytics.
Before all this I had moved from a tiny town near Heidelberg via Berlin to San Francisco. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (IT Systems Engineering) from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. I'm 25 years of age.
Please see my about page for details. Check out LinkedIn or download my resumé. I have a Twitter and a Github account.
Once upon a time I used to upload pictures to Flickr, even wrote a little tool to look at hundreds of photos at the same time: Flickrgrab.
I am passionate about developing amazing websites and the systems that power them.
I'm in charge of technology at Azumo Advertising, a small online marketing start-up in Berlin, Germany. I write Python and PHP server code and oversee everything from HTML and Javascript to EC2 autoscaling and Redis cluster systems. Since we're serving many millions of page impressions every day we spend a lot of time on scalable systems and high availability. We use machines in the cloud, whichever SQL or NoSQL tool that fits the job, and have different, carefully monitored services for every task.
In a group of eight students I joined SAP Labs in research on their in-memory database, which will become SAP's next primary persistence database. It will be used for both live transaction processing and reporting at the same time. I personally re-engineered SAP's dunning toolset to reduce query times from 20 minutes to one second using a 120GB column-oriented main-memory database for one of SAP's largest customrs.
All throughout college I worked on some other fun projects. Just to name two examples: Muxfind employs Latent Semantic Indexing and collective intelligence for searching music. Flickr Grab creates quick overview over Flickr photos.
I covered artificial intelligence, clustering and data visualization in Ligageschichte.de, built a usable interfaces for small devices in Human Computer Interaction, and published a paper on a scalable Aggregating Discovery Service for RFID data.
