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I have a bachelors degree in computer science and currently I'm studying to get my masters degree. I'm also employed in a student job at my university hospital, doing medical informatics stuff, sadly no XMPP :( | I have a bachelors degree in computer science and currently I'm studying to get my masters degree. I'm also employed in a student job at my university hospital, doing medical informatics stuff, sadly no XMPP :( | ||
My involvement in XMPP began when I implemented OMEMO encryption for the Smack XMPP client library as part of my bachelors thesis. Since then I visited 4 XSF Summits and 2 Sprints, took part in two XMPP related Google Summer of Code projects and became the number 2 contributor of Smack. | My involvement in XMPP began when I implemented OMEMO encryption for the Smack XMPP client library as part of my bachelors thesis. Since then I visited 4 XSF Summits and 2 Sprints, took part in two XMPP related Google Summer of Code projects and became the number 2 contributor of Smack. | ||
My main interests are end-to-end encryption which is the reason why both my bachelors thesis was and my master thesis will be around that topic. Although I don't feel confident enough in my knowledge I'm the formal leader of the SIG-E2EE which focuses on advancing end-to-end encryption protocols within the XSF. | |||
In my spare time I'm writing articles about XMPP and free software on [https://blog.jabberhead.tk my blog]. | In my spare time I'm writing articles about XMPP and free software on [https://blog.jabberhead.tk my blog]. | ||