General Information

I'm a software engineer for technical-scientific applications having M.Sc. degrees in Computer Sciences and Mathematics. For software development on various platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) I mainly use the programming languages C++, Java, and Fortran.

Main fields of Interest

• PDF technologies
• Database management systems (design and architecture)
• XML/XSLT processing
• I18N (Internationalization) technologies

Open Source Projects

Since about 2005 I'm involved in Open Source software development.

My components for wxWidgets-based applications

• wxSQLite3 - SQLite3 wrapper (with encryption support)
• wxPdfDocument - Generation of PDF documents
• wxChartDir - Support for using the ChartDirector library

My C-based components

• SQLite3 Multiple Ciphers - SQLite3 extension with support for multiple cipher schemes

Projects to which I contributed, one way or the other

• libcurl - A library for transferring data with URL syntax
• libxlsxwriter - A C library for creating Excel XLSX files
• sqleet - SQLite3 encryption that sucks less
• wxWidgets - Cross-Platform GUI Library

Projects I have experiences with

• libexpat - Fast streaming XML parser library
• Lua - Powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language
• muparser - Fast math parser library
• OpenSSL - Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
• Sablotron - XSLT processor written in C++

Contact

• 📧 [email protected]
• 🏠 Homepage (currently in German only)
• 🔗 LinkedIn Profile