Torsten Curdt

Current

Member at Apache Software Foundation
Independent Consultant at vafer.org

Past

VP, Apache Commons at Apache Software Foundation
Team Lead at Joost
Senior Software Engineer at ManageSoft

CTO at dff internet & medien

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Torsten Curdt’s Summary

Broad experience of projects and technologies. Either managing or fully hands-on. Most comfortable in a technical team leader role. Technical writer, speaker on conferences and blogger. Active member of several open source projects. Particular interested in research of new technologies and strategies. Proven record of problem-solving and always eager to streamline development to improve productivity.

Torsten Curdt’s Specialties:

enterprise java (J2EE), API and framework design, concurrent programming, scalable architectures, Cocoa, iPhone

Torsten Curdt’s Experience

Member

Apache Software Foundation

(Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

Apache Cocoon developer since version 1.x.
Contributor to several components of Apache Commons.
Maintainer of Jakarta BCEL.
Involved in the Apache Software Foundation since 2000.
Independent Consultant

vafer.org

(Computer Software industry)

June 1993 — Present (16 years 7 months)

Custom software developments. Published a the book "Jakarta Commons" and various articles. Technical editor to the first Cocoon book. Speaker at conferences like ApacheCon and various GetTogethers. Founder of the Frankfurt chapter of CocoaHeads. Author of some open source frameworks and programs.
VP, Apache Commons

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — August 2009 (2 years 2 months)
Team Lead

Joost

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

September 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 3 months)

First helped to build and maintain a scalable web infrastructure and deployment procedures. Then responsible for the area of user tracking and reporting. Led the team to improve the hadoop based storage and reporting system. Also maintained and improved the low level tracking components.
Senior Software Engineer

ManageSoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 5 months)

Key role in design and implementation of several Mac/Unix and Windows products. Internal and external trainings and presentations. Improvements to build, test and continuous integration infrastructure.
CTO

dff internet & medien

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1999 — September 2003 (4 years 6 months)

Architect of a PHP and a Cocoon based web application platform. Technical lead for several B2B and B2C web solutions. Architect of a mobile tracking solution focused on innovative usability. Contributor to the Apache Cocoon project.