Hello, world!
I am Günter Obiltschnig a software engineer and entrepreneur from Carinthia, Austria.
I am the founder and creator of the
POCO C++ Libraries and
macchina.io EDGE and REMOTE.
Work
In late Summer 2004 I started working on the POCO C++ Libraries. The POCO C++ Libraries are widely used in the industry, from embedded devices/IoT to datacenter software, and from games to defense, by well-known companies such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, HP, Intel, Cisco, and many more, too many to mention here. Most of the onging development is now driven by a community on GitHub, but I still assume the project leadership role.
Based on the POCO C++ Libraries I have also designed and implemented high-level C++ frameworks like Open Service Platform and Remoting. In 2013, these two, along with the V8 JavaScript engine, became the foundation of macchina.io EDGE, a toolkit for IoT edge device and gateway software.
Another product that is a direct outcome of my early IoT work is
my-devices.net, which started as a secure web- and
cloud-based remote access platform for embedded devices, and which is growing into a more general cloud-based
IoT device management and data ingestion platform as a companion to macchina.io. In 2018 my-devices.net
was renamed to macchina.io REMOTE. Together with macchina.io EDGE, these
are the current main focus of my work.
I work for my own company, Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH.
Occasionally, more as a hobby, I also develop for iOS and have a couple of iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store. AIS Radar, an app visualizing ship positions received from a Wi-Fi-connected AIS device (Automatic Identification System, a widely used system for transmitting and receiving ship positions, and other data), is one example, but I have also worked on apps that help kids like my daughter understand the foundations of mathematics.
