About me

Nice to meet you, I’m Philip! :) #

I have grown up and living in Austria 🇦🇹 in the Alps and working part-time as a software developer in the energy industry and studying computer science at the University of Innsbruck.

To learn more about technology and computers I decided, after graduating from secondary school, to register for the electronics & computer engineering department at the higher technical school (HTL) Anichstraße in Innsbruck. At this five years I learnt to manage networks, design circuit boards and programming software. The programming part was the most interesting of my study at the HTL, where I learnt the basics of C, C++, Java and Web programming. My first attempts at programming were horrible, and I realized that I will not work as a frontend developer, because my designing skills are terrible :D. The first opportunity to apply my learnt skills were at a two-month-long summer job at the IT department of the hospital in Innsbruck. In this two months I helped at managing networks, fixing IT related problems (mostly because of the lack of knowledge at the customer side) and overhaul old computers that were not used anymore. I finished my five-year-long study at the HTL in year 2017 programming an information system for cafeterias named CISOS (Canteen Information System Open Source) with PHP - which… is not open source anymore, but hopefully in the near future I will find the motivation to implement this system with C# and .NET.

The next stop in my career as a software developer I signed up directly after HTL for the bachelor course for computer science at the University of Innsbruck, which I attend until this day. If you can calculate right, you will notice that I should have finished my bachelor around 2020, but I decided in March 2019 to work part-time as a software developer at World-Direct eBusiness solutions GmbH located in Sistrans, Tyrol. As a result of this, my study have slow down dramatically, but will try to achieve my graduation in year 2024 - hopefully Currently I have paused my studies and working fulltime as software developer. At least I have already finished my bachelor thesis with the title Increasing throughput of server applications by using asynchronous techniques – A case study on CoAP.NET.

Now, at my day-to-day job I’m working on products for the energy industry used by leading companies in Europe. These products are being developed with C# and using .NET as foundation. As a result of my activity in this environment, I had the chance to successfully work with really cool technologies like:

• Quartz Scheduler
• Polly
• Spectre.CLI
• and many more

Hobbies & interests #

Besides at working and studying, I’m fully into tech, programming and open source development. Also, I’m like to play a lot of strategy games like:

• Heroes of Might and Magic 5 & 7
• Stronghold
• Cities Skylines
• Crusader Kings III
• and a lot more games on my pile of shame

If I get out in the wild, I’m mostly going for ski mountaineering with my father or going to the gym to not get too fat. Also, I love to play Billard or Darts with friends.

Thanks for visiting and have fun! :)