Writing code all started with Assembler and Basic on the Commodore 64, Amiga, and CP/M. Over the years since then Manfred has done a lot of problem solving, code wrangling, hacking, and debugging. Programming languages and tools can be counted in the dozens, and a strong focus is the involvement in the Java and open source communities.
Current projects and more information can be found on GitHub:
Following are a number of involvements from the present and past:
- Trino Software Foundation maintainer, contributor, and advocate
- Apache Software Foundation member and Apache Maven committer and advocate
- Eclipse Software Foundation member and committer on the Hudson continuous integration server
- Jenkins continuous integration server contributor and plugin developer
- Contributor and developer at Takari for polyglot-maven, maven-wrapper and other projects
- Contributor to Sonatype Nexus and the Maven Central Repository processes and infrastructure
- Android developer and community advocate:
- Project lead for android-maven-plugin and maven-android-sdk-deployer
- Project lead for ksoap2-android
- Contributor on Robotium, RoboGuice, Robolectric
- Deep knowledge of pipelines for build, test, CI/CD publish and more
- Android mobile application development for a top 5 electronics retail company
- Application development with barcode scanning, video player, document display, interactive charts and more
- Long time specialization on development and infrastructure tooling long before DevOps was a thing
- Infosec involvement over many years
- Lots of SQL and database work as business intelligence consultant
- Implementation of JasperServer as the backend report rendering and administration engine for a multi-client real-estate web application
- Web development since about 1990 with a myriad of stacks and tools