About me

I'm the Lead Software Architect for Web & Cloud at dSPACE where I support multiple scrum teams with web technologies and cloud architecture. The web is my passion since 1996, when i developed my first website. I have a bachelor and a diploma in Computer Sciences, but everything I know about the web platform and cloud services today is self-taught. I consider myself blessed that I get to build great stuff and help others do the same for a living.

When not dabbling with web and cloud technology, I’m usually playing videogames or reading books or comics. I have slightly elitist views on beer, love to travel the world with my wife & daughter and have spent most of my adult life trying to get into a regular exercising habit. I believe in a culture that allows failure, supports experiments and celebrates learnings. I do some quality freelance consulting and teaching for Web Application Development, Web Security, SaaS and Cloud Architecture and write about Web Development and Cloud Technology on my Blog and Twitter.

Latest blog posts

• Evaluation order of field initializers in JavaScript and TypeScript
  This article introduces you to my latest side project and describes a problem that I encountered because I did not understand the sequence between initializing class fields and calling a parent constructor. It then continues to explain how class fields are initialized in javascript and typescript and how I solved my initial problem.

• How to create a self-updating GitHub profile README
  Profile READMEs are a new GitHub feature that allows user-defined content to be displayed on top of your GitHub profile page. This article explains how to create a basic README, shows few beautiful examples and explains how I've built mine to automatically update with my latest blog posts.

• Generating beautiful Open Graph images with Node.js
  Open graph images provide nice previews when sharing your website. This article explains how to automatically generate open graph images with Node.js and integrate the results into a Gatsby site.