Curriculum Vita

Andreas Kupries

Contact information

Name Andreas Kupries

Address Pestalozzistr. 6, 47877 Willich 1, Germany
[email protected]
https://core.tcl-lang.org/akupries/
https://akupries.tclers.tk/
Born at August 15, 1967
in 47877 Willich 1, Germany 🇩🇪
Nationality german

Education

1973 - 1977 Grundschule im Muehlenfeld, Willich


(basic/elementary school)

8/1977 - 6/1986 St. Bernhard Gymnasium Willich
(high school)
Graduation: "Abitur" at 06/02/1986
Summary grade: 2.0
(highschool diploma)
9/1986 - 10/1992 Courses at RWTH Aachen
(Northrhine Westphalia technical university Aachen)
Major subject: Computer science
Minor subject: Mathematics
11/1988 Vordiplom: 2.0 (B.S.)
10/1992 Diplom: 1.0 (M.S.)

Employments

10/1990 - 10/1992 Student worker at Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik, insbesondere Informatik


(Chair for applied mathematics, especially computer science).
Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Walter Oberschelp

11/1992 - 12/1992 Scientific worker at chair named above
01/1993 - 10/1997 Employee of Ingenieurbuero Kisters.
Development of software to support the work of hydrologists.
More specifically:
• Application for graphical visualization and manipulation of timeseries.
• Application to support digitization of analogously recorded timeseries (sheets of paper).
• Storage of timeseries data in relational databases.
11/1997 - 02/2001 Employee of Ascom Deutschland GmbH (Standort Aachen).
02/2001 - 08/2015 Employee of ActiveState Tool Corp. 🇨🇦
Part of the Tcl Team:
• Maintenance of ActiveTcl and bundled extensions.
• Work on the Tcl Dev Kit.
• Integration of Tcl with Komodo.
Stackato commandline client.
09/2015 - 03/2017 Employee of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
In the Cloud Business Unit:
• Maintenance of HPE Helion Stackato
• Work on the next generation of the same.
03/2017 - current Employee of SUSE (🇨🇦Canada till 12/2020, 🇩🇪Germany since 01/2021).

Writings

See my musings

Other knowledge

Foreign languages English 🇬🇧

Computer languages Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Modula, C(++), OCCAM, PROLOG, Go, bash
Development experience with Unix (Linux, AIX, Ultrix, DEC OSF, SCO) and Windows (MSVC++).

Interests

  • Reading, mostly SF&F, Computer security

  • Member of the ``Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft (DLRG e.V)'', a German water rescue organization.

German grades

A note on german grades: They are of numerical value, in the range of 1 to 6. One is best, six worst. For more flexibility in grading suffixes + and - are possible. Numeric only indication of a suffix is addition/subtraction of 0.3 to/from the base value.

Rough translations:

1 very good

2 good
3 satisfactory
4 enough/sufficient
5 unsatisfactory/poor
6 inadequate