Hello world... this is my first ever blog. So, who am I?
I came to Sun through the acquisition of SeeBeyond. There are quite
a lot of differences between SeeBeyond and Sun.
SeeBeyond was a bit of a secretive company. Contact with the "outside
world" was not exactly stimulated, rather frowned upon. Sun on the
other hand is all for openness and communication with the world outside
of Sun. Hence this blog.
What can I tell about my time before Sun and SeeBeyond? Well, to begin at the beginning: a defining moment in my life was when I took a programming class in high school. As soon as I could, I bought a Commodore 64 on which I toiled countless hours away coding tools in the immensely primitive BASIC of that machine. Ever since, my one great interest has been developing software.
For the past ten-or-so years, I have been involved in development of
commercial software products. Early on in my career I was in software
for the chemical process industry (my background is really chemical
engineering); soon I discovered that I should not limit myself to chemical
engineering and I moved into enterprise software. First into B2B software, then
into integration software.
In a previous life I spent five years working at the Eindhoven University of Technology
in the department of Chemical Engineering. Much of it was in
compuational modelling and laboratory automation; I had a tiny softare
company on the side for the evening hours. After I earned my PhD I left
for the USA.
What will I do with this blog? No personal musings... but I hope to write plenty of technical ones.
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