Dennis joined 28msec in 2007 after finishing his combined degree in Business Administration and Computer Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Already whilst studying, Dennis was eagerly interested in XML-related technologies like XQuery, XSL, or XPath. He is an "IBM Certified Solution Developer XML 1.1 and Related Technologies" and was awarded a grant from the Karl-Steinbuch-Stipendium in 2006 for implementing an XQuery based XML messaging prototype. Currently, he is a keen developer of 28msec's Sausalito development team implementing the scalable XQuery Web Application server Sausalito.