 Reginald Stadlbauer - CEO / co-founder
reggie@froglogic.com
Reginald Stadlbauer was born in Graz, Austria where he attended high
school and then the Technical University of Graz.
An interest in computers and programming began when Reginald started
with BASIC programming, before moving on to Pascal on an ATARI ST where
he became interested in GUI programming. He started working with C++ and
Qt® after he joined the KDE team in the summer of 1997—he
worked on KWord, and
developed the initial version of KPresenter.
Reginald started working for Trolltech® AS as a software engineer, in the
summer of 1999. During his four years at Trolltech, Reginald worked on
several major projects, spending most of his time doing development, but
also doing release management and training and mentoring other
developers. He was a software architect and the lead developer for the
Qt
Designer GUI builder, he was one of the architects of Trolltech's Qt/Desktop product, he
led the development of Qt's complex widgets, and he was also part of the
architecture and implementation team for QSA - Qt Script for
Applications.
Reginald co-founded froglogic in 2003.
 Harri
Porten - CEO / co-founder
porten@froglogic.com
Harri Porten is of German and Finnish descent and grew up in Germany
and Thailand. After high school he studied at the Technical University
of Hamburg-Harburg in Germany, and at the University of Waterloo in Canada;
he graduated with a diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
Harri started programming on an Apple II, and soon turned his hobby
into a source of income, providing maintenance and consultancy services
to local businesses. After discovering Linux, Harri joined the KDE project, where he eventually
implemented a JavaScript interpreter—this interpreter was adopted
for use in KDE's web browser Konqueror, and is now also used by
Apple in its Safari browser, and served as the starting point for
WebKit's JavaScript interpreter.
Harri began working as a software engineer at Trolltech AS in Oslo in the summer
of 2000. During the next three years he oversaw the portability of the
Qt GUI toolkit to a wide variety of different compilers and operating
systems, including HP-UX and AIX. In addition, he implemented Qt's
original SVG support, and was involved in Trolltech's quality assurance
process. Harri was also a member of the Qt Script for Applications
(QSA) team.
Harri co-founded froglogic in 2003.
 Rainer
Schmid - Senior Software Engineer
Rainer Schmid was born and grew up in Germany. After high school he
studied computer science and mathematics at the University of
Saarbrücken, Germany, and graduated with a diploma in computer
science.
He began programming as a hobby in the 1980s, starting with BASIC on
a Commodore 64. Later, Rainer moved on to an Atari ST where he learned
to program in C. After graduating, Rainer worked for a short time as a
C++ programmer for a German company in Kaiserslautern.
In May 2000, Rainer started working for Trolltech AS as a software
engineer. During almost four years at Trolltech, Rainer mainly worked on
non-GUI classes, including those providing networking and XML support.
Towards the end of his time at Trolltech, Rainer was leading Trolltech's
Qt Solutions group that creates add-ons for the Qt library. Rainer left
Trolltech at the end of 2003 and worked as a freelance consultant and
programmer on Qt-based software projects. During this time he also did
research on various aspects of human-computer interaction.
Rainer joined froglogic in spring 2005.
 Frerich Raabe - Software Engineer
Frerich Raabe was born in Germany where he attended a technical
school, and later went on to study computer science.
He started programming in his teens, initially with GW-BASIC and
Turbo Pascal, later moving on to Borland Pascal and x86 assembler. In
1999 he joined the KDE project and started developing software using C++
and Qt. His work at KDE included many additions to KDE's core libraries,
the KNewsTicker RSS aggregator, major refactorings to KDE's help center,
and the Kontact PIM suite's XMLRPC backend.
During various part-time and freelancing jobs, Frerich taught
himself skills in a variety of web-related technologies, including
XML, XSLT, XPath, and DocBook XML, as well as popular scripting
languages, including Python and PHP.
Frerich joined froglogic in summer 2005.
 Koos Vriezen - Software Engineer
Koos Vriezen was born in Arnhem, Netherlands and studied in
Nijmegen. During his studies of math and physics he became more and
more interested in software development, and fell in love with Linux and
C++ in the early 1990s.
After working as a math and physics teacher for a few years, Koos
switched to teaching official Microsoft courses for Visual Basic and
introductory courses in C and C++. Later on he joined Polderland,
a Dutch company that specializes in language and speech software, where he
took part in various C++ projects, including development for the Dutch
version of Microsoft's Office's grammar checking tool.
Later still, Koos worked for an industrial automation company, Van
Gelder Engineering. Around this time he joined the KDE team, initially
doing KHTML bugfixes, and then moving on to specialize in KHTML KPart
usage, as well as improving the Java applet support and adding the
KMPlayer video plugin.
Koos joined froglogic in spring 2006.
 Rob
Buis - Software Developer
Rob Buis was born in the Netherlands and studied in Amsterdam.
He first became interested in programming after seeing Pacman on a
Nintendo in the early 1980s. His first computer was a Commodore 128, and
this was followed by an Amiga where he started programming in BASIC and
C.
During his studies Rob spent his spare time on gaming and reverse
engineering game file formats. Although he first encountered Linux in
1996, it was so basic that he didn't take to it, instead doing
development using Visual Studio and MFC, as well as general Unix
programming on SunOS/Solaris
machines.
Rob tried Linux again around 2000, and thanks to the Enlightenment
and KDE desktops, he found the experience much nicer than in the 1990s.
In 2001 he joined the KDE project, mainly focusing on vector graphics
rendering and editing, working on KOffice and KSvg. In 2006 he joined
the Webkit open source project as a reviewer and committer.
Rob joined froglogic in spring 2007.
 Roberto Maisl - Software Developer
Roberto joined froglogic in autumn 2006.
 Andreas Pakulat - Software Developer
Andreas Pakulat was born in the former German Democratic Republic.
His first exposure to computers was playing games on his father's ZX
Spectrum, and then a Robotron in 1994. He didn't begin programming until
his final years at school, where Pascal was taught in an IT course.
During his studies in Rostock, Andreas used his spare time to learn
Java and a little C++ on Windows, although the University courses he
attended often featured Solaris and other Unix variants.
He liked the way these Unix operating systems worked, and this led him to
try Linux in early 2002, which he liked so much that he
stayed with it.
Andreas started programming for the KDE project using C++ and the
KDE3 (Qt 3-based) libraries. And when Qt 4 came along, Andreas
got involved with PyQt, helping to port the examples for the first PyQt4
release. He formally joined the KDE project in the spring of 2006 and
began working on the KDevelop3's qmake support, and later worked in
other areas including other areas, including version control, project
management, and Python support.
Andreas joined froglogic in January 2008.
 Mark
Summerfield - Technical Writer
Mark Summerfield was born in London, England. His first involvement
with computers was at Technical College where he was given access to a
mini-computer with magnetic tape storage and teletype and papertape
input. He learned BASIC at College, and Forth, Pascal, and C on various
home computers over the years. He is a computer science graduate.
After graduating, Mark spent many years working in the software
industry, primarily as a programmer. He also spent almost three years as
Trolltech® AS's documentation manager during
which he founded and edited Trolltech® AS's technical journal, Qt Quarterly.
Mark is the co-author of C++ GUI Programming
with Qt 4 (ISBN 0132354160), and author of Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (ISBN
0132354187), and most recently of Programming in
Python 3. Mark owns Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu, where he works as an
independent author, editor, trainer, and consultant, specializing in
C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt.
Mark joined froglogic as a documentation consultant in autumn 2008.
 Clemens Anhuth - Software Developer
Clemens joined froglogic in January 2009.
 Jan Aarsaether - Director of Sales America & Canada
Jan was born in Norway and has lived in Sweden and the U.S. He is an
engineering graduate.
After graduating, Jan worked for Metis in Oslo as a Qt developer. Then,
in 2000, Jan moved to California to to help Trolltech get their US based
operations and business off the ground. He and his family moved to
Austin, Texas in 2004, from where he worked servicing Trolltech's clients
in the central parts of the U.S.
Jan's strong technical background, and years of experience building
relationships with clients, make him an effective communicator, able to
earn the trust of both engineers and managers. Jan is now responsible
for froglogic's sales and business development throughout the Americas.
Jan joined froglogic in spring 2009.
 Heiko Janssen - Software Developer
Heiko joined froglogic in summer 2009.
 Alex Spehr - Technical Support Engineer
Alex joined froglogic in autumn 2009.
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