Introduction to the show and the host – Legacy Coder Podcast #0

Legacy Coder Podcast

Who is this guy and what the heck does he know about Software AG’s Adabas and Natural? I’ll show you in the pre-episode zero of the Legacy Coder Podcast.

Introduction to the podcast and myself

• My experience with Adabas and Natural.
  • I’m programming with Natural since 2003.
  • I’m the president of the International Natural User Group since 2016.
  • I co-authored NatUnit (as part of my Master’s thesis) and L4N.
  • My main job is integrating Adabas/Natural into a modern SOA with webMethods Integration Server.
  • In the last few months I automated and modernized the Natural build process with Git, Jenkins, Java, and NaturalONE.
  • My biggest Natural project so far was the migration of an insurance system from Oracle/Java to Adabas/Natural.
  • I frequently speak at local and international user groups and conferences (e.g. Innovation World, Innovation Tour, IUG).
  • Our Natural code base: ~6 million LOC, ~19.000 modules.
• My professional experience.
  • I studied business computer science (Bachelor’s degree) and software engineering (Master’s degree).
  • I train new hires and apprentices at ALTE OLDENBURGER Krankenversicherung AG in Germany.
  • I also use a few additional languages: Java, C#, PHP, Ruby.
  • I’m a software architect since 2014.
  • I work as an associate professor for programming and software engineering at PHWT since 2009.
• My personal life.
  • I’m married.
  • I have two dogs.
  • I like taking photos.
  • I run a podcast for aspiring software developers in German.
  • I organize my own user group and conference for software developers.
  • You can find me almost everywhere: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram etc.

Links

• Permalink for this Podcast episode
• RSS feed for the Legacy Coder Podcast
• My content hub
• NatUnit
• ALTE OLDENBURGER Krankenversicherung AG
• PHWT
• My two dogs
• My podcast: Anwendungsentwickler-Podcast
• My user group and software conference SEROM
• Some of my social media profiles: LinkedIn, Xing, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
• Here’s a video about my work at ALTE OLDENBURGER Krankenversicherung AG:

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