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1996

University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering

1998

VM Labs Inc., CA, USA

Head of Audio, Director System Architecture

2003

Micronas GmbH

Head of Media Core SW

2008

CasaLive Binner&Faust GbR

Founder

2009

BMW AG
Software Architect Infotainment

2011

Elektrobit GmbH
Head of Technology Driver Assistance

2015

Novero GmbH

Senior Manager Research, Head of Munich Office

2017

OSRAM GmbH
Director Global Technology Scouting

2019

TWAICE Technologies GmbH
Head of Technology

2021

PolyTech Wind Power Technology Germany GmbH
Head of Digital Solutions

2022

Rightware Software GmbH

Chief Technology Officer

2026

Orbem GmbH
Principal Architect

Products

Stay Abroad

1990er

Beginning of the 1990th I did develop and publish (through partner) under the label "Raindorf Soft" together with Harald Schönfeld a couple of programs for the ATARI ST computer line:

Route It! - PCB layout
Circu It! - Circuit design
WinRec - Audio Recording
WinCut - Audio Editor

There are still traces of these programs in the internet:

1998 - 2002

Working on NUON - a great product - during my time as an employee with the start-up VM Labs in Silicon Valley (California, USA). Tap the logo for more information.

Test RouteIt and CircuIt (ST Magazin 1992)

Test WinRec and WinCut (ST Magazin 1994)

Apps (no longer available)

Apps (current)

2009 -2017

2025 …

SmartHome App for the iPhone of the first hour. Later also as iPad and Apple Watch App. CasaRemote was retired in late 2017 ... For more details on the history of CasaRemote click on the logo.

Since 2025 I have bundled all my new apps under the label "alpineapps". Tap the logo for more information.

GitHub

For some time I planned to make some of my code snippet from many years of hobby programming available as Open Source to the public. 2019 I finally did it. A start is made...

EMIL - Tiny scripting language embeddable in any Swift project

TinyJSONPath - Tiny JSONPath like implementation in Swift

In 2018 we bought an e-piano for the kids. This motivated me to get back to the keys, too - as a teenager I did play the organ for a couple of years. But it turned out to be a rough road to get back the independence of hands ...

Ohne Dich - Rammstein (December 2020)