QOOXDOO - Key Persons


Christian Boulanger

Job Titles:
  • Social Scientist
Christian Boulanger is a Berlin-based social scientist, part-time coder, and open source enthusiast (JavaScript/NodeJS/PHP). For his personal needs, he developed Bibliograph , an online bibliographic data manager, which has been based on Qooxdoo since 2005, and is used by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Law Faculty since 2011.

Derrell Lipman

Derrell Lipman has been working at the cutting edge of, and innovating in the computer science arena for 40+ years, including porting Unix Version 7 to the PDP-11, and inventing windows before Bill and friends. He has been an active contributor to qooxdoo for about 15 years. Derrell has a BS in Computer Science from University of the Pacific, and masters and Ph.D. from University of Massachusets, Lowell. Professionally, Derrell currently holds the title of Principal Innovation Architect. Derrell enjoys spending time with his family, playing racquetball and ping pong, running around with and training his puppy, and is a mentor for the local high school's FIRST (FRC) robotics team.

Henner Kollmann

Henner Kollmann has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH in Aachen. He is working for aucos Ag as senior software developer with Delphi, Java, Javascript, C++, Qt and SQL. In his freetime he supports since 2010 the developing of VZAweb: web-based traffic census data base which is fully based on qooxdoo.

John Spackman

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer
John Spackman is a life-long software developer, starting in C and C++ before ending up in Java and Javascript, with a brief diversion into Delphi. John builds software systems for corporates, sometimes managing large quantities of data and code - John's company, Zenesis Ltd, actively maintains around a million lines of code in production systems. On his days off, John enjoys rebuilding rotary engines and working on his small holding with his extended family of 4 generations, dogs, cats, sheep, pigs, geese, turkeys...and a horse.

Tobi Oetiker

Tobi Oetiker has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the ETH in Zurich. He published hist first OpenSource software package in 1994. A network monitoring script named MRTG which became quite popular back in the day. Tobi lives in Switzerland and co-owns a small software and sysadmin company. His favorite programming Languages are Perl and JavaScript and he is still looking for an excuse todo a project in Rust.