Hi guys, I'm Etienne, 24 years old (2 weeks until 25) and I'm currently studying Computer Science with a focus on Industrial IT in Brussels. I'm in my last semester and doing an Internship in Luxembourg, the country I live in, where I have been assigned to work with PLC and monitoring data using Open-source software. I really enjoy being part of this project and plan on continuing even after my internship. I initially studied 3 years in Luxembourg to become a teacher when I decided to turn things around and follow my second option : IT (Maths, Physics and IT were my main topics in highschool) . I decided to go abroad to Brussel as most Luxembourgish students go there and I have already gone there a few times. My father is an Engineer and studied material physics. He has 2 sons, one likes maths, physics and computers and one hates all of them. Guess I'm the first one. I was born in Amiens, France and I'm french, but we moved to Luxembourg in 2000 when I was 5 so I have only a few memories left from my time in France. I'm a big Gaming Enthusiast and have been playing video games since I was a kid, but now I mainly play 1 game only. Beside that, I like experimenting in my kitchen which will always make my girlfriend angry because I don't clean up. I also like every kind of beer (almost) you can find but my heart sticks to belgian beers and German "Helles" due to my Erasmus I did in 2015 where I went to Munich for 6 months. Or maybe my love for beers & cocktails comes from the fact that I have been bartending for over 2 years along my studies (on the weekend) and I kind of enjoy bars. Had to stop in January due to an unplanned but very loved daughter I got on February which now fills my life with joy. Still looking forward to when bars open again tho. Cheers,
Etienne Le jeu. 7 mai 2020 à 12:32, Julian Feinauer <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hey friends, > > first, thanks for starting this excellent initiaive (we should probably > place the texts even on the "team" part oft he homepage). > > I am Julian, 32 years old, married to my lovely wide Constanze and have > three kids (two of them know toddy personally and like him, the third is > too small, yet). > We live in Kirchheim which is about 40km south of Stuttgart and at the > "Schwäbische Alb" a very nice and rural area. > I studied math and I really am mathematician by heart. I did my PhD in an > applied math project and worked (together with my fellow Tim) on lithium > ion batteries for mobile applications at a Daimler. But I felt too young > and dynamic to stay in a corporate, thus I started a company. > > We initially foused on data analysis and BI stuff but moved more and more > to technical data and ended up in the "digitalization" or "Industrie 4.0" > world. We joined the PLC4X project pretty early as we decided to abandon > our home made stack to polish PLC4X for our purposes. Thus, we have it in > production since way over a year now and have a lot of hands on experience > (especially Tim). Thus, we often focus on "boring" things like scraper, > pools and stability related stuff (like Netty) and do not so much implement > new drivers (AB Ethernet we did together with Chris). But as we are really > deep in the community and love it we do way more in the project then we > would probably need for our business application, solely : ) > > But generally speaking, you can always ping us with usage scenario > questions (mostly Siemens S7) and integrations. Currently we see ourselves > as the main maintainers oft he 0.6 branch at least until one can migrate > safely and stable to 0.7 (when it will be out) as we have too much stuff in > production nowadays to play games (Cesar may surely know what happens when > stuff in production does not work as expected... : D). > > So, thanks all of you for making our little community so lovely and > enyojable. I feel very happy tob e part o fit and to hang out with you > guys. And we are really making an impact, more and more! > Julian > > > Am 07.05.20, 11:36 schrieb "Strljic, Matthias Milan" < > [email protected]>: > > Hi, > > I am a research assistant at the University of Stuttgart at the > Institute of Control Engineering (ISW) and work there in the areas of > communication/service concepts for automation systems and cloud > manufacturing. > Among other things with projects like RetroNet I got in contact with > several older automation protocols (ADS, S7, Profinet/bus..) and also more > recent ones like OPC UA and their diversity despite the common goal. That's > how I got to know Chris, Julian and the initial PLC4X crew :) > > Before that I completed a study in software engineering. My main > programming language would be Java, but I already had a lot of stacks in my > hands (Javascript, C++, Python, Go, C#, Ada, PHP). > > I like to sharpen knives and sometimes distil some schnapps. So if > someone wants to forget a bug, you can choose between 40 - 80% alcohol > content and 5 flavours ;) If Toddy leaves some. > > > At the moment I'm working on the OPC UA integration of Milo into PLC4J > with the documentation (Pls Toddy stop hurting me! ) and a bridge server > for the OPC UA representation of other protocols in an extra integrated OPC > UA server. Our institute is quite experienced in TSN and OPC Companion > specifications. Therefore I try to integrate the project into publicly > funded research projects to make PLC4X more known and to support the > community. > > Greetings Matthias > > > ________________________________ > Von: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2020 13:23:42 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz > > Hi all, > > I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year > and most of you I have never met personally. > We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack, > but I only have little background on who you folks actually are. > > So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in > this thread. > > I’ll start: > > My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied > computer-science at the University of Darmstadt. > I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact > with all of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost > contact when I discovered my interest in computers. > > Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no > chance to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been > working for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15 > years. I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to > paint a portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining > jacket and have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first > quarter of 2017 it was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking > about giving up my profession as an IT specialist and even starting to > learn something new. I was already looking for companies looking for an > apprentice as carpenter, when I had another round of self-reflection. Even > if I probably would have been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my > job, just not for Banks and Insurance companies. > I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues. > > It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems > are easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from > the banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s > missing in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access > problem is the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight. > > Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”. > Here if you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session > with the board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My > idea was to build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I > want this to be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for > codecentric would be to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions > with our large set of professionals in all areas this involves. The board > agreed and for the last 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work > on Apache PLC4X full-time. > > Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m > usually in the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week, > I love snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water. > > Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I > travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals. > > I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend > Tanja, where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and > which we renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end > … so some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m > probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my > rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops. > > > Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what > drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce > yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a > hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉 > > > Chris > > >
