Michael, our December Star Contributor, has been active in our community since October 2009 when he led the migration of our issue tracker over to JIRA. He’s continued to be a big help, spreading the word about Mifos, and now leading migration of our wiki.

Michael Vorburger – Lausanne, Switzerland

Utilizing his computer science degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Michael has worked in a variety of environments and roles, from setting up networking infrastructure and websites for the International Peace Bureau in Geneva to building his own small software business developing and marketing web tools; from working around IP multicast switching with Cisco Systems in California, to some kind of highly configurable CRM solution supporting pharmaceutical companies with their innovation and intellectual property management chain.

Michael’s current day job is with Odyssey Financial Technologies, a leading wealth and asset management software vendor.  He recently took over responsibility for the company’s Eclipse-based SDK and implementation tooling strategy and development. Throughout his career he co-authored a book on the Java Data Objects (JDO) API, helped with the $100 Laptop Project (http://olpc.ch), and this summer organized a class teaching 8 year olds programming using http://scratch.mit.edu.