I’m an engineering leader and enterprise software architect with over 25 years of experience designing and building scalable, high-performance systems across open-source and enterprise environments.

• 🧱 Architect large-scale distributed systems for SaaS, retail, and hardware-integrated platforms
• 👨‍💻 Lead high-impact engineering teams through growth and transformation
• 🧩 Develop and contribute to open-source tools that solve real-world problems
• 🧠 Advocate for clean code, thoughtful architecture, and developer empowerment

• 🧑‍🏫 Author of Tabular IQ — a modern data modeling and visualization toolkit
• 🏢 Managing Director at fopen GmbH — software engineering consultancy focused on strategic product development
• 📦 Core firmware developer for the Toniebox, a beloved children’s audio device
• 🌐 Former Chief Software Architect at Flex.io and Gold Prairie LLC, where I led the development of multiple greenfield SaaS platforms

I’ve been active in the open-source community for decades, contributing to tools ande projects such as:

• wxWidgets - a cross-platform GUI toolkit
• wxAUI – an advanced UI management system for wxWidgets
• wxWebConnect – a bridge between desktop and web technology for wxWidgets apps
• Early adopter and advocate of Linux, dating back to the mid-1990s

• 🌐 tabulariq.com
• 🌐 fopen.com
• 💼 LinkedIn
• 💡 Always open to collaboration, architecture mentoring, and tech leadership discussions