My Story

Born in 1993, I spent my childhood in a small village near Hamburg. In 2013 I finished school with the Abitur and started studying business informatics at the HAW Hamburg. After finishing the bachelor's degree in 2017 I approached the master of business informatics at Kiel University (CAU).

With my first Android Smartphone in 2012, I developed a broad interest in the relatively new operating system. In the second year of studies at the HAW Hamburg, I started my first attempts in Android app development.

With the start of the master's degree at Kiel University (CAU) in 2017, I finally released my first Android app called Hue Light in the Google Play Store.

Over time, my app portfolio was extended by two more apps: Timer and Dark Mode, which were initially meant to simplify my daily life.

Hue Light

The Hue Light app is a lite light controller app for Philips Hue lamps.

It enables users to easily turn on and off their lamps and change their colors.

When I started using Philips Hue lamps, I came across the problem that opening the official Philips Hue app on my old smartphone took realtively long and was not intuitive to use. To solve these problems, I created my own app as an alternative solution.

Screenshot of Hue Light app Get it on Google Play

Dark Mode

The Dark Mode app enables users to activate the hidden night mode settings of their Android devices (up to Android 9) to turn supported apps and system themes dark.

Dark Mode is written with Kotlin and has reached more than 23 million downloads until now.

Screenshot of Dark Mode app Get it on Google Play

Timer

Timer is an app, which can be used to set repetitive timer sessions.

This app was intended to replace hourglasses for family games, as the timer can be restarted quickly and also continues counting the exceeded time.

Screenshot of Timer app Get it on Google Play

Curriculum Vitae

May 2013

Abitur at EKG Barsbüttel

Sep. 2013 → Dec. 2016

Business Informatics (bachelor's degree) at HAW Hamburg

Apr. 2015 → Mar. 2016

Software Developer at Hein + Fricke

Mar. 2017

Release of the App Hue Light

Mar. 2017 → Jun. 2021

Business Informatics (master's degree) at University Kiel (CAU)

Jan. 2019

Certified Tester (Foundation Level) by ISTQB

Mar. 2019

Release of the App Timer

Jul. 2019

Release of the App Dark Mode