Carsten Haitzler

Carsten Haitzler
Carsten Haitzler in light blue shirt, centre
Born (1975-11-29) 29 November 1975
Nigeria
Nationality Australian; German
Alma mater University of New South Wales
Occupation Software engineer
Website www.rasterman.com

Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager and its libraries.[1]

Life and work

Carsten Haitzler was born in Nigeria of a German father and Finnish mother, but soon moved with his family to Germany where he lived until the age of four.

Haitzler then moved to Sydney, Australia where he attended the University of New South Wales, graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science. In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA,[2] Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems.[3]

In Sydney, Haitzler worked for Fluffy Spider Technologies where he refined, optimized and commercialized the basic Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) for Enlightenment 0.17. Fluffy Spider Technologies use some of EFL for their embedded Linux graphical user interface FancyPants.

After working for Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, he worked for Openmoko, decided that it "turned out to be a non-working thing for me, so I resigned". Since 2010 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen.[4]

Other software Haitzler has contributed to includes Electric Eyes, GTK+ theme engines, Imlib, Imlib2 and Epplets.

References

  1. ↑ Haitzler, Carsten (31 October 2012). "Seeking Enlightenment". The H online (Interview). Interviewed by Fabian A. Scherschel. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Carsten Haitzler departs Red Hat". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
  3. ↑ "Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2000". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
  4. ↑ Haitzler, Carsten (15 January 2012). "Interview: Carsten Haitzler". FOSDEM (Interview). Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  • Carsten Rasterman Haitzler's private site
  • LWN Linux Timeline, June, 1999.
  • ESD White Paper, RHS 1999.
  • Fluffy Spider Technologies website.
  • Linux 2000 UK Linux Developers' Conference.
  • SLUG codefest February, 2003.
  • Linux Australia - Australian Contributors. at the Wayback Machine (archived March 11, 2007)
  • "RHS Newsletter, January 1998". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
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