| Name: | Martin Kauss |
| Born: | 11110110011, Dortmund |
| Marital status: | Married, 2 kids |
| What drives me: | Building stuff that works, building robots, Raspberry Pi, speech controlled stuff, (smart) home control, machine learning, AI, tough challenges, coding |
| What I love: | My family and friends, sailing, running and being active |
| Some milestones | |
| 1983: | First development steps on an Apple II |
| 1985: | First database experience with dBaseIII and Clipper |
| 1987: | Secondary School Certificate |
| 1991: | Training industrial mechanic for the field machines and systems engineering (Mubea) |
| 1993: | CNC programming, 3/4 axles, Assembler and video game programming |
| 1994: | Alternative civilian service (DRK) |
| 1996: | Founder of Netline Internet Services GbR, Kauss & Zeppenfeld |
| 1998: | Founder of Netline Internet Service GmbH Development of the Netline Application Server which was the underlying technology for shops, CRM systems, dynamic web pages and much more. |
| 1999: | Official IHK license for educating apprentices: IT specialist, application developer |
| 2000: | Building up and managing a (mostly development) team |
| 2001: | Development of an appliance product (Comfire), Compaq partnership |
| 2002: | Development of the Openexchange Server 5 |
| Java, DB, Mail Servers, Firewall, Linux, Bash, SQL, Open Source, Javascript, HTML | |
| 2002: | Technical project lead SuSe Linux Openexchange Server |
| 2003: | Deep stack integration |
| 2004: | Open sourced code base of the Open-Xchange Server |
| 2005: | Building up a technical partner community |
| Managing a technical community, system and service integration, removing blockers and working under rough conditions | |
| 2005: | Founder of Open-Xchange Inc. |
| 2006: | Development of Open-Xchange Server 6 Transition from on-premise into a Saas/Cloud architecture Product manager/key accounter for one of the world’s largest hosting provider in terms of Open-Xchange related products |
| Building large, scalable SaaS/Cloud solutions for millions of users, Agile Development, Test Driven Development | |
| 2007: | Building up QA/IT department |
| 2008: | Planning, developing and engineering the software architecture foundation for the next generation of the Open-Xchange Server |
| 2009: | Partner development management, building an universal synchronization machine for Exchange Active Sync and Outlook |
| 2010: | Product management for a next generation HTML5 user interface |
| 2011: | Implementing a mobile strategy, product manager for mobile UI and clients |
| 2012: | Consulting and guiding in terms of technology, products and strategy in the hosting and telecommunication space |
| Consulting, partner management, prototyping, technology and architecture | |
| 2013: | OpenOffice integration into Open-Xchange in terms of technology and vision |
| 2014: | Product management OX Drive, Backend, Windows, Mac OS and mobile clients |
| Working in very large and complex cloud projects, with highly distributed applications, cross-functional/distributed teams from the very first idea through all phases | |
| 2018: | Finishing on-going projects, learning, continuing education and building the future on a self-employed basis |
| Links: | GitHub PGP Public Key |