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Jirka Schaefer (certified engineering manager)

Corporate Development

Jirka is the co-founder of the Yoosic Technology Corporation and intellectual father of the Yoosic Coding Division Tschitschereengreen. He studied at the Technical University of Dresden and gained practical experience when working for the innovation management for Porsche and Deutsche Bank. This, however, was not enough for him.

As the managing director of Tschitschereengreen, he coordinates the interests of his clients and ensures that only first class and highly qualified work is produced.

Jirka is also in charge of finding the latest technologies. Once he finds them, he often has a crack at them and loves playing with new material. When he likes what he finds and the result makes sense to him, he shares his experiences with the other employees. His passion is infectious and spreads to those who work for him. Jirka recently founded the Django fanclub. Now everybody around him is a fan!

Sebastian Friedel

Software development

In the beginning, we only employed Sebastian as a part-time assistant. Soon however, we were able to convince him to work full-time for us and to move from Chemnitz to Dresden.

Sebastian is the one with the talent to write the smartest code. New technology does not present a hurdle for Sebastian. He can command them straight away and at the same time devote himself wholeheartedly to playing around with our servers. Whenever we need somebody to dive into the murky territory of a computer to read and write the Assembler Code, Sebastian is our man. His analytical intellectual power combined with the outstanding ability to think through the most complex logical systems, assure that we as a team can meet the highest requirements. Sebastian belongs to the programmer’s cream of the crop: he only needs a few days to internalize a completely new programming language in detail.

We're glad he didn't get swept away by quantum physics and technical mathematics. Even though they are always looking over his shoulder...

Sebastian’s dream would be a room with 19 shishas, one laptop, loud Metal and a kilo of mango tobacco. Sebastian, we promise to work on it!

Christopher Dickes

Software development

Some time ago, we picked up Christopher aka Chr on the river bank of the Spree. We fed him with truffles, took him with us and never let him go again.

Christopher is our layout-God. His CSS-Hacks are legendary. Those people, who have ever tried to make a website with 5 different site layouts on 5 different browsers with 3 different versions at one time, know that nerves of steel are a must. Christopher has many years of experience in dealing with the failings, quirks and strengths of IEs, FFs, Safaris and Operas. Nobody else can integrate CSS Hacks from memory and thus reduce the time pressured risk of Layout like he does. Without such a professional Frontend-specialist, without Christopher, we would not be able to stick to deadlines the way we do. Christopher, aka Chr, was the first to play around with Django in his supremely relaxed manner. Indeed, he was the one who showed us how brilliant this framework actually is.

Chr would kill for chocolate – his ideal computer would be made out of whole milk chocolate with Duplo candy bars and Marc-de-Champagne-Chips.

Arthur Koziel

Software development

Arthur comes from Dortmund and he administers a blog called Symfoniac. Even though it seems redundant to mention what Arthur’s speciality and passion is, we will mention it anyway: Arthur has been tinkering with Symfony for two years; he assists people from all over the world looking for help, and at the same time mulls over of what else could be done with Symfony. As a developer of Symfony Plug-Ins, he has access to operations and methods of Rapid Development Frameworks, a characteristic feature that only developers and programmers possess.

Moreover, Arthur is our specialist for Unit-Test (There would be no projects with Unit-Tests without him!) and Full Text Search Engines. That is why Arthur is able to guarantee the quality and long-term stability of our codes. He also makes sure that the Performance-Full-Text-Serach-Engine does not go up in smoke.

Tina Schnittka

Project management (formerly: marketing & sales department)

Before making the decision to apply for a job at Yoosic, Tina financed her Master of Education majoring in History and German studies, with part-time jobs in hospitality and remedial teaching for classes studying German as a second language. Ever since Tina started to work for Yoosic, she has been the woman in charge of the literary part: she is the one who creates our great texts and who demonstrates by far the best rhetoric in the web.

Nobody else knows the German internet scene like Tina. With her outstanding rhetorical skills, Tina was responsible for our Brand Management and the supervision of our entire external communication.

For some months now, Tina has been in charge of a couple of software projects launched by Tschitschereengreen. Among other things, she currently supervises the Suhrkamp publishing house.