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Matthias Bauer

Hi, I'm Matthias Bauer. I solve problems, in web development, ecommerce, service design and corporate communication.

Matthias Bauer is one of the best-known Ruby on Rails developers in Europe. He founded his first company at age 16 and has worked as a security expert for the IT sector, gained extensive experience in e-commerce, was a freelance management consultant and is involved with many open-source projects. Matthias speaks German, English and French, can curse in Finnish, and currently studies Hebrew.

Matthias Bauer's Background

Matthias Bauer's Experience

Senior Software Developer Core at actindo GmbH

November 2009 - May 2010

actindo offers a flexible and comprehensive ERP² solution that can be easily expanded. Development on actindo Core. Performance improvements of the basic system through intelligent caching and optimizing database queries. New or further development of shop connectors for connection of e-commerce systems. Changes in the development system to improve the source code control and development cycles.

Chief Geek Officer / Consultant at trust in dialog

November 2007 - May 2010

Development of web applications, eCommerce engines, shop systems as well as customization of existing solutions to customer's requirements. Dialog marketing consultation and execution.

Head of IT at Rock N Shop

November 2007 - May 2010

Helped Rock N Shop grow from small founders-only online retailer with handwritten labels to a professionally organized e-commerce site with great customer service, feedback, and high user approval. Reduced process time by an order of magnitude so that the complete order handling process is less than two minutes now. Laid the foundations for a future-proof computing infrastructure and website.

Maven at we are evangelists

October 2008 - October 2009

We are evangelists and spread the word about the new new, the new black, any and all innovation that can bring your business forward. Let us explain current trends and new services and give you a perspective on their future as well as your future with or without them.

Photographer / Photo Editor at Bright Eyes Germany

August 2006 - April 2008

Photographer and Photo Editor for Bright Eyes Magazine, one of the largest German online hard rock and metal magazines, covering all kinds of music-related events across Europe. Photographing some of the largest European rock/metal music festivals for several years, as well as managing several staff photographers and photo editing for immediate usage on the websites in multiple languages.

Software Engineer at CLT Sprachtechnologie GmbH

March 2004 - September 2007

Language and speech technology, using speech synthesis and recognition in dialog modelling and the development of dialog systems, virtual (software only) as well as on robots interacting with the user. Applying data mining techniques and transformations to large text corpora to find changes in word usage and detect neologisms. Used Natural Language Processing to construct and improve grammar and spelling checkers.

Assistant Researcher at University of Saarland

January 2004 - March 2004

Assistant Researcher with the EU-funded TALK project to conduct Wizard of Oz experiments relating to user-machine interaction using spoken natural language.

Chief Technical Officer & Product Manager at Toptranslation GmbH

August 2010

Freelance Web Developer (Ruby on Rails, PHP) at Self-Employed

July 2010

Freelance Web Development in Ruby (Rails 2, Rails 3, Sinatra), PHP, Python and other languages. Familiar with agile processes (SCRUM, Extreme Programming). Several years experience developing Content Management Systems, E-Commerce Systems, Mobile Websites & Services, as well as experience managing personal and corporate sites from the technical, administrative and business development sides. Good know-how on scaling techniques for news-type and community sites.

Web Developer, Mobile Consultant, eCommerce Consultant at Ants with Friends

September 2009

ANTSwithFRIENDS is a network of freelancers, an anthill of ideas. Flexible, powerful, creative. Let us solve your problems.

Evangelist at Buddycloud

October 2008

Buddycloud takes your mobile's address book, mashes it up with our location fingerprint technology and then feeds the results back to your buddies. Buddycloud pushes (and pulls) your location, mood and intended next location to everyone else in your address book. At the same time Buddycloud will point out interesting people and locations as you move around town, and gives you a convenient way to chat with them and hook-up.

Consultant at Napalm Riot, Inc.

February 2007

Consulting, development management and development of the site, particularly in the areas of user interaction and user communication (chat, mail, forums). Napalm Riot is a social network for gamers. Whether Tetris, Quake, Counter-Strike, or Civilization, everyone has a place here. Forums and chat rooms provide easy interaction between users, databases, news and game profiles are also available.

Project Member at Habari

January 2007

Member of the Habari Project. Habari aims to be the personal content management system of the future, built on state of the art technology and available under a free license (Apache License 2.0).

Photographer at mattness photography

2003

Concert and event photography, portraits, art and experimental photography.

Owner at eta-net

June 1999

Web development, hosting and domain registration, server management, performance optimization, software design and development.

Matthias Bauer's Education

Universität des Saarlandes

2003 – 2006

Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium

1994 – 2002

Abitur


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