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 |