Thorsten Schneider
Born on 21st of May in Saarlouis, Germany
Education
| 2006 | Degree in Computer Science (Diplom - Grade: 1.6) |
| 2000-2006 | Student of Computer Science at "Saarland University" |
| 1999 | Abitur (Grade: 1.8) |
| 1990-1999 | Max-Planck-Gymnasium Saarlouis |
| 1986-1990 | Primary School |
Work Experience
| 08/13-today | Co-Founder Y-SQUARE GbR, Freiburg Executive Board Technology & Development |
| 08/11-08/13 | System Operations Manager at OXID eSales AG, Freiburg |
| 02/09-07/11 | Operations Manager at CoreMedia AG, Hamburg |
| 10/06-12/11 | Co-Founder and CEO Geckobyte GbR |
| 03/08-01/09 | Operations Engineer at Coremedia AG, Hamburg |
| 10/99-12/06 | Founder and chairman at Netstorm Systems, Thorsten Schneider |
| 10/05-05/06 | Database administrator and Teaching Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christoph Koch, Saarland University |
| 2003-2004 | Teaching Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller (Two Software Design Labs), Saarland University |
| 07/01-06/04 | System administration of a heterogeneous network at the chair of Prof. Autexier, Saarland University |
| 04/01-06/01 | Software Engineer DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken |
| 07/01-09/01 | Student trainee at Siemens A&D, Saarbrücken |
| 03/97-07/98 | Side job at Meguin GmbH, Saarlouis |
| 1996-1997 | Internship at Rousselange Computersysteme, Schwalbach |
Stay Abroad
| 10/07-01/08 | Educational journey along the australian east coast |
Voluntary Service
| 2006-2007 | Member of the organizing team of the "Firmeninformationstag" FIT2006 and FIT2007 |
| 2000-2005 | Elected member of the student board, faculty of computer science, Saarland University |
| 2003-2005 | Member of the examination board, faculty of computer science, Saarland University |
| 2001 | Member of the organizing team of the "Firmeninformationstag" FIT2001 |
| 1997-1998 | Member of the "Landesschülervertretung" |
Skills
| Programming Languages | C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Perl, PHP and other scripting languages |
| Databases | MySQL, PostgreSQL |
| Operating Systems | Linux, MacOS X, MS Windows, MS DOS |
| Networks | Construction, cabling and maintenance of structured networks. Configuration of MTAs, web servers and other network services. |
| Languages | Deutsch (native), Fluent in English, Elementary French and Spanish |
Publications
Dynamics in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Networks
Thorsten Schneider, Saarbrücken 2008, 80 pages, paperback. ISBN 3-8364-9061-7
Interests
Diving (Skill level: PADI Assistant Instructor), biking, running and playing my guitar.