Michael Jastram
Geschäftsführer at rheinjug e.V.
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Jastram is a systems engineer and founder with over two decades of experience in software design, architecture and requirements engineering, currently leading Formal Mind and serving as Chief Architect at Semiant. He initiated and leads the Eclipse Requirements Modeling Framework and helped shape the ReqIF standard, blending deep academic research (PhD) with practical open-source stewardship. Michael builds commercial products from research—most recently Semiant, an intelligent-agent-backed glossary and collaboration tool—and has a history of scaling technical communities, having founded rheinjug. A regular conference speaker and published author, he combines hands-on development for startups with expertise in requirements traceability and tool integration. An unexpected detail: his background spans naval and ocean engineering at MIT and Hamburg, which informs a systems-thinking approach to complex software ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Ocean Engineering, M.S., Ocean Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDipl.-Ing., Naval Architecture, Dipl.-Ing., Naval Architecture at University of HamburgExtention School, Software Architecture, Biochemistry, Extention School, Software Architecture, Biochemistry at Harvard UniversityDr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Düsseldorf
English, German
Github Skills (5)
toolchain9
modeling3
testing2
specification2
data-dictionary1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openETCS/playground
Jun 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 3 months
testingtest-repository
openETCS/toolchain
Oct 2012 - Dec 2015
WP7: Top Level Project for the toolchain
Contributions:40 commits in 3 years 1 month
toolchain
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