Wolfgang Loder

I am programming software since the 1980s, successfully rejected all calls for management roles and remained hands-on until now.

My journey went from Assembler and C to C++ and Java to C# and F# and JavaScript, from Waterfall To Agile, from Imperative to Declarative and other paradigm changes too many to list and remember.

Most of my career I was a contracting 'Enterprise Developer', so the introduction of 'new' languages, frameworks and concepts is very slow in this field. Once I decided to develop my own products I was free of such constraints and ventured into all sorts of paradigms, be it NoSQL or functional and evaluating all the latest ideas, crazy or not. In other words, I am having fun developing software.

Right now I am writing my first technical book: "Erlang and Elixir for Imperative Programmers". Will be out in Summer 2015

I was born in Vienna and live in Austria, UK and Kenya.