Torsten Curdt

Current

• VP, Apache Commons at Apache Software Foundation
• Team Lead at Joost
• Member at Apache Software Foundation

• Open-Source Developer at Apache Software Foundation
• Freelancer (Self-employed)

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Past

• Senior Software Engineer at ManageSoft
• CTO at dff internet & medien

Recommended

7 people have recommended Torsten

Connections

152 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My RSS feed
• My Flickr Page

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:

java, API design, concurrency, scalable architectures, cocoa

Torsten Curdt’s Experience

• VP, Apache Commons

  Apache Software Foundation

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Team Lead

  Joost

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

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

• Member

  Apache Software Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — Present (3 years 6 months)

• Open-Source Developer

  Apache Software Foundation

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  August 2000 — Present (8 years 3 months)

  Apache Cocoon developer since version 1.x.
  Contributor to several components of Apache Commons.
  Maintainer of Jakarta BCEL.

• Freelancer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Computer Software industry)

  June 1993 — Present (15 years 5 months)

• 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.

Additional Information

Torsten Curdt’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My RSS feed
• My Flickr Page

Torsten Curdt’s Groups:

Apache Software Foundation, Codehaus, JCP

•    Apache Software Foundation
•    Apache Software Foundation Members
•    Java Architect
•    ApacheCon
•    ASF

Torsten Curdt’s Honors:

ManageSoft Agile Champion, August 2005
IBM Derby Coding Contest, ApacheCon US 2004

Torsten Curdt’s Contact Settings

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