Hi all, Thank you for your stories, great project. I had luck to meet many of you personally, which I consider a luck given current circumstances.
My name is Łukasz Dywicki, born at 1E.C.7C1 in small polish city. Privately father and husband. Technician/ironworker by formal education. I've tried to study computer science twice. Stuck at 2nd year since then. My first computer was somewhere around 1999 (AMD with 266 MHz clock). I started doing some HTML in 2002 cause I demaged operating system and could not fix it. :-) I was too scarred to tell my parents, so had to keep impression that computer is working. Later I began writing scripts in PHP. When I finished school in 2005 I imediatelly started working as web programmer. Self employeed since December 2008. Apache committer since 2010. Between 2010 and 2017 I did contracts to various companies abroad, primarily with Apache middleware projects such as Karaf, Camel, CXF, ActiveMQ. I worked for telecoms, banks, insurance a spent 3 years around billing data analytics and system integration. Software integration is my passion. I can't remember now, how I found Chris now, but I kept an eye on the PLC4X project since its early beginning. When I saw, how hardware integration looks I like, I come to the point that it is still a pain compared to IT. Since Industrie 4.0 is mainly about computerization of manufacturing I took my bet on it. I'm here because 3 years ago I was exhausted by consulting and selling my own time. I want to build a product which realizes "plug & play" concept in a secure way for machinery, using a form know from the consumer market. All my small contributions so far are result of my own commitment. I believe that PLC4X is the best tool available on the market for what it was invented. I live now close to Warsaw, which was my base since long time. My non-computer activities are usually around maintenance of a house, giving my head and body a pleasure of exercises. Best! Łukasz On 05.05.2020 13:23, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Hi all, > > I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year and most > of you I have never met personally. > We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack, but I > only have little background on who you folks actually are. > > So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this > thread. > > I’ll start: > > My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied > computer-science at the University of Darmstadt. > I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact with all > of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost contact when I > discovered my interest in computers. > > Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no chance to > not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been working for > about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15 years. I > always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to paint a > portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining jacket and > have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first quarter of 2017 it > was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking about giving up my > profession as an IT specialist and even starting to learn something new. I > was already looking for companies looking for an apprentice as carpenter, > when I had another round of self-reflection. Even if I probably would have > been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my job, just not for Banks and > Insurance companies. > I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues. > > It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems are > easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from the > banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s missing in > this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access problem is the > biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight. > > Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”. Here if > you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session with the > board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My idea was to > build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I want this to > be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for codecentric would be > to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions with our large set of > professionals in all areas this involves. The board agreed and for the last > 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work on Apache PLC4X full-time. > > Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m usually in > the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week, I love > snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water. > > Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I travel > around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals. > > I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend Tanja, > where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and which we > renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end … so > some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m probably > digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my rain-water system, > or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops. > > > Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what drives > me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce yourself. > And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a hessian … a > big glass of apple wine) 😉 > > > Chris >
