RICO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer at Karakun
Christopher Keibel is a software engineer at Karakun and currently doing his master in Data Science.
Being a User Experience Designer, Cindy is one of the users advocates at Karakun. She lives in Bremgarten AG, Switzerland together with her husband and two daughters. In her short time away from work or family she enjoys doing Martial Arts and runs along the Reuss River.
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- Professor at the University of Applied Sciences
Dierk is fellow of Karakun and professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland. He is the main author of the best-selling book "Groovy in Action". More info under https://dierk.github.io/Home/
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer at Karakun
Dr. Iryna Dohndorf is software engineer at Karakun, book author and speaker at international conferences.
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer at Karakun AG
François Martin is a full stack software engineer at Karakun AG, living in Switzerland. He is an active open source contributor and co-author of the two open source JavaFX frameworks WorkbenchFX and PreferencesFX and an active member at the Swiss Testing Board.
Gerrit Grunwald is a software engineer with more than fifteen years of experience in software development. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like JFXtras.org as well as his own projects (TilesFX, Medusa, Enzo, SteelSeries Swing, SteelSeries Canvas).
Gerrit blogs regularly at harmonic-code.org, he is an active member of the Java community, where he founded and leads the Java User Group Münster (Germany), is a JavaOne rockstar and Java Champion. He is a speaker at conferences and user groups internationally and writes for several magazines.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Karakun AG
Hendrik Ebbers is a co-founder of Karakun AG and lives in Dortmund, Germany. He is the founder and leader of the Java User Group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations in user groups and conferences. His JavaFX book "Mastering JavaFX 8 Controls" was released 2014 by Oracle press. Hendrik is JavaOne Rockstar, JSR expert group member and Java Champion.
Karsten worked until mid 2022 as a Senior Software Engineer for Karakun GmbH and lives in Dortmund, Germany. He is a known expert in the Eclipse ecosystem, an active committer in multiple Eclipse projects (Xtext, Eclipse Platform, PDE, ...) and contributor to many more. Karsten shares his experience as speaker on conferences like EclipseCon, JavaLand, Devoxx, FOSDEM.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Karakun AG
Markus Schlichting is a co-founder of Karakun AG and lives in Siegburg, Germany. He is organizer of the Hackergarten in Basel and occasionally speaks at user groups and conferences and writes articles. Software Engineering, agile methodology and Open Source are concerns of his heart. When not sitting in front of a computer, he loves to spend time with his sons and his wife, taking photographs or to get some fresh air driving his motorbike.
Michael Heinrichs is a co-founder of Karakun and a passionated frontend developer. Prior to that he worked in various roles in companies like Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Barclays, and Canoo. He is a Java Champion and found and leader of the Java User Group Freiburg. Michael loves to spend time with his family and cooking. Occasionally he blogs at http://blog.netopyr.com.
Job Titles:
- Senior Software Engineer at Karakun AG
Simon Skoczylas is a senior software engineer at Karakun AG, living in Unna, Germany. He is developer since 2001 with focus on JavaScript and Java. Simon gives talks and presentations on conferences. He battled IE6 in the past and is a passionate web developer.
Stephan Classen is a co-founder of Karakun and lives in Graubünden. He has more than ten years of experience as a fullstack software developer and a passion for clean and maintainable code.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Karakun AG
Timo Brandstätter is a co-founder of Karakun AG and lives in Stuttgart, Germany.