Born 1970 in Hamburg. Graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a Diplom Informatiker degree (Master equivalent) in Computer Science. Managed in the 90's Germany's biggest IRCnet server irc.fu-berlin.de, and co-managed one of the world's largest FTP server ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. Set up first public webserver in 1993. From 1993 until 1998 member of Projektgruppe Kulturraum Internet. Co-founded 2002 Apache Friends and created the multi-platform Apache bundle XAMPP.
More at oswaldism.de