I am a self-employed BSD-enthusiastic hacker with a Scala fetish, a Ruby addiction who loves network engineering and pentesting.

My passion is to learn languages (real and programming). I consider both german and english as my native tounge. Apart from that, i can read and talk a little bit french and spanish, as well as reading and understanding very little arabic.

So far i've successfully done some larger projects in
- Objective-C (iPhone/iPad)
- Ruby (Rails and Merb / DataMapper and ActiveRecord)
- Python (Django)
- Java (Tapestry5 with Spring)
- Perl (WWW::Mechanize)
- Scala (Liftweb and Akka)

I have a strong PostgreSQL and FreeBSD/NetBSD background and i despise people working with PHP and/or MySQL.

Most of my time is spent working for Esirion AG where i developed iOS-based applications in the past. You can find a list of applications on their official website here. I layed the cornerstones for these iOS Apps:
- GPS Astro
- MR Wetter
- Fürth App
- Ski Weather
- Yachting Weather
- SIEMENS Hörmagazin

Since i was self employed for so long, i am unable to work under normal conditions like 9-to-5. Like i always say if you pay peanuts, all you'll get are monkeys.

Current

Finally i've settled for my own small company called Bettag Systems UG (haftungsbeschränkt) where i offer server housing, DNS services, do penetration tests as well as contract programming for customers. Mainly i do iOS Coding, Ruby and Scala as well as Administration.

I've also given a Talk in October of 2011 at the Scala LiftOff in London. If you want to check it out, you can find it on the Skills Matter site.

Check out my website www.bett.ag for more info.