Hi, I am Christian
Born 1981 in Flensburg, North of Germany.
I studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Flensburg.
In my free time, I enjoy being out in nature, doing various sports, mainly CrossFit, running and recently gravel biking. A healthy lifestyle, is part of my life.
Reading novels, non-fiction books, blog articles, and listening to podcasts and music round out my day. If I had to pick a favorite music band it would be Linkin Park.
On days off and weekends, I enjoy traveling in our motorhome with my wife and our dogs.
Credits for the cartoon goes to https://karikaturshop.de/harold-und-sandor
During my studies in Flensburg we had to do an internship and I found already in the 3rd semester my first employer “GreyLogix” who was a small industry automation company. I startet as a developer and tester and until then worked next to my studies in several project where we automated a lot of industrial productions for the food industry.
In 2015 I decided to go a different direction and to learn something new as I felt stuck a bit. I started as an ERP consultant and developer in Sonderborg, Denmark. I learned a lot of new stuff about ERP Systems, especially about Microsofts Business Central (formerly known as Navision).
In 2023 I again felt the urge to change something in my work life. I found my current employer the akquinet NEXT GmbH where I work as a Solution Architect. If I get asked what I do for my living - my answer is always that I seek for solutions to problems or demands our customers have. And then together with my Team and the Customer we will find the best possible solution. I’m still developing myself - because there is a lot to learn and I love coding. 💙
I love to do any kind of sports if it is alone or in groups I think it is essential to do if you want to live a happy and long life.
You will read a bit more about my training and sportive activities in the blog. I do not follow a dedicated training plan, I just do what feels right. Lately I started to take a closer look at bio metrics like heart rate during training and I’m starting to learn how I can use to get a better training or outcome. It is also fun to combine my both passions: sports and technology.
Regarding food I live on a plant base diet since a couple of years I stopped eating meat and animal products for various reasons. I had to learn a lot about this new lifestyle but that is what I do - get into something and start learning more and more. It is good that I also love to be in the kitchen, prepare and cook food. That helped a lot in the beginning. During this journey I also learned a lot about food, what we eat, more vegetables that I did not know - the variety of legumes is crazy. Crunchy spicy chick peas are my favorite snack or topping. In the blogs I will from time to time also share some recipes - as everything in this blog it will evolve and may be there will be a recipe section in the links at some point.
I love challenges - sportive and also tech/work related.
Here is a photo of me competing at the Hamburg HYROX Fitness Race in 2024 together with a good friend in the Men’s Double division. We did not beat our time from 2023 but we had a lot of fun and learned a lot about where to improve for 2025 to our time.
As I also love to travel with our motorhome you might see some pictures from those travels from time to time on this blog. Here is one of my favorite selfies that we made where we found a beautiful lonely spot during an afternoon walk.
