Welcome to my personal website. I use this space to share some of my thoughts and software that I write in my free time. Sometimes I also publish photos. If you want to get in touch please use LinkedIn or Mastodon.
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Friedrich Ewald is a Staff Software Engineer with a Master's degree in Computer Science. He started this website in late 2015, mostly as a digital business card. He is interested in Go, Python, Ruby, SQL- and NoSQL-databases, machine learning and AI and is experienced in building scalable, distributed systems and micro-services at multiple larger and smaller companies.