about Michael

Michael is a student of computer sciences at the RWTH University of Aachen, and currently interns at the Mozilla metrics team.

Michael has been developing software for the web since age 15, first at an Aachen based startup. There he has worked on various financial web applications that are in use by local and international banks. While completing an intermediary job at Kulturserver Aachen, Michael wrote his first Ajax style web applications when the term had yet to be coined.

During his internship at Mozilla, Michael has been contributing to the Firefox Input project and is now working on scalable Data Warehouse solutions based on Apache hbase.

Currently, Michael likes to play with LilyCMS, Solr, Django and jQuery and to experiment with new approaches to web application development. His favorite programming languages include Python and JavaScript, but Michaels experience also covers PHP, Java, SQL, Bash and other technologies.