Executive Summary
Ralf S. Engelschall is a 45-year old independent
Computer Scientist,
Line Manager,
Solution Engineer and
Software Artist, living with his wife and three
children in Munich, Germany. He has 31 years of computing, 28 years
of software development, over 25 years
of Unix operating system and Internet networking and 17 years of line
and project management experience.
Achievements
He is the author of the book
Apache
Desktop Reference, author of over a dozen IT magazine articles
and author of three dozen widespread Open Source software components,
including the popular Apache
mod_rewrite
and
mod_ssl
extensions, the
GNU
Portable Threads and
GNU
Portable Shell Tool, the
OSSP
software component collection, and the comprehensive
OpenPKG cross-platform multi-instance
Unix software packaging solution.
Contribution
Beside being the founder of the popular Open Source software projects
OpenSSL,
OpenPKG and
OSSP, since over a decade he is an
active developer in the
Apache,
FreeBSD and
GNU projects. Additionally, he is
founder and president of the
OpenPKG
Foundation e.V. and founder and managing director of the
OpenPKG GmbH.
Attitude
As a success-oriented person he enjoys to adopt new technology
challenges and looking beyond the ordinary when developing solutions. He
especially is known in the world-wide Open Source software community for
his unique passion and steadiness to design, architect, implement and
publish popular Unix software components which are accredited by experts
to have a unique balance of both technical functionality and artistic
aesthetics.
Capability
His preferred work assignment consists of the roles Methods Engineer,
Software Architect, Project Manager and Principal Consultant in
challenging software development environments where his personal key
competence areas are invaluable and profitable: Software Engineering
Methodology, Project Management, Open Source Software, Unix Server
Computing, Internet Networking Technologies, Cryptography and Web
Technologies.