He received his BSc. and MSc. in IT & Systems Management from the Salzburg University of Technology. He also studied abroad at AUT in New Zealand during his bachelors, and used an opportunity to work as a visitor at the Biorobotics Lab at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University during his Masters. He has since become a Principal Software/Systems Engineer and has worked on a large variety of projects. In his spare time he took courses of the Masters of Software Engineering program at the Institute of Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. He especially enjoys working on distributed real-time systems and the design of user-friendly APIs and tools.