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Hello, my name is Martin Brochhaus. When I was young my parents told me that my father’s job was about “doing something with computers”. After an internship at his company years later I decided that “doing something with computers” would be a pretty cool job to do indeed. When we got our first internet connection early in 1996 this grey little power sucking machine quickly started to suck all of my spare time as well. This was when I began to teach myself HTML and built my first little websites.
Consequently in September 2001 I applied for a combined apprenticeship at Bayer AG, where I got the opportunity to earn practical “real business” experience right from the start while studying Business Informatics at renowned University of Applied Science Bergisch Gladbach. During this time I became a C# expert being one of the main responsible developers of a complex financial intranet web portal.
After six successful years at global player Bayer AG I decided that it was time for a change (“Yes, I Can”) and relocated to Bonn, Germany where I applied for a job as Python developer at Orbit GmbH, a small but dynamic and innovative company.
Besides I am working as a freelance webdesigner in my spare time since 1996. Of course this might be quite straining sometimes but it really helps staying on the ball and not to get rusty doing routine work every day.
Way too late I decided to give Linux a try and installed Ubuntu. That was the day when I last touched a Windows machine. Linux dramatically took me a giant leap further in respect of productivity and also creativity – so much that next to a full time job and freelance webdesign I have enough time give something back to the open source community by writing this little blog…
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