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• 👋 Hi, I’m @larsschenk
• 👀 I’m interested in solving problems with software.
• 🌱 I’m currently learning playing electric guitar.
• 💞️ C/C++, c#, php. Mostly working on closed source projects.
• 📫 Since: 1988 dev, 1994 barcodes, 2007 AWS, 2008 git, 2009 github, 2012 heroku.

For over 40 years enthusiastic software developer:

• 1968 born in the hanseatic city of Lübeck, Germany.
• 1980 With only 12 years I started to learn coding and developing software on my first computer.
• 1983 I got my first Apple computer and I had my first work placement as a software developer for the Siemens Nixdorf platform (Business Basic).
• 1984 thanks to Microsoft’s first hardware product I learned CP/M, Basic-80, UCSD-Pascal and Turbo Pascal.
• 1985 I run a self engineered BBS written in 6502 assembly and Applesoft BASIC.
• 1986 I enterd the world of PC/MS DOS with my first PC/XT clone build from used parts.
• 1987 Successful completion high school. Unit electrical engineering, English.
• Since 1988 self employed as software developer.
• 1989 DV-Kaufmann (data processing expert) at WAK Kiel (economy academy) with certificate from “Industrie- & Handelskammer” (Industry and Commerce Association) in Lübeck.
• Since 1991 software development for Windows.
• Since 1994 Barcode-Software-Solutions (Win32, C++, Visual Studio)
• Since 1996 married. Focus on Linux, Internet and Security.
• 1999-2015 software development for publishing house Lübecker Nachrichten.
• Since 2000 father of twins.
• Since 2001 activebarcode.com.
• Since 2004 having used other CMS since 2000 I now focused on WordPress with theme tweaking und plugin development.
• Since 2005 on OS X (later macOS) as my main development machine.
• Since 2007 focus on Could-Computing IaaS (AWS).
• 2008-2015 software development for publishing house Ostsee-Zeitung.
• Since 2008 proudly using git and still learning.
• Since 2009 proudly using github.
• Since 2011 proudly using CloudFlare.
• Since 2012 focus on Could-Computing PaaS (Heroku).
• Since 2013 Decentralization enthusiast.
• 2014-2018 software development for Orte im Norden.
• Since 2015 using Visual Studio Code as my main editor. Having used Atom, Sublime Text, Eclipse, TextMate and many others before. Still loving Vim with tmux & mosh.
• 2017 Amazon Alexa Skill Development.
• ... Sorry, no time to keep this list updated. And still so many new stuff to learn...
• My linkedIn profile is outdated, too.
• Since 2020 Reactjs.
• Since 2022 heavily into Cloudflare with Pages, Workers, R2 and KV.
• 2000-2023 my website and blog has been retired and archived: old.lars-schenk.com
• Since 2023 included ChatGPT into my workflow.