About me
My name is Baris Tasan, I am 28 years old and I was born and raised in Engelskirchen, Germany (lying about 42 km in the east of Cologne) and visited the Aggertal Gymnasium school there.
After school, I decided to study Computer Science and did a vocational training at the b.i.b. International College in Bergisch Gladbach and graduated from the Southampton Solent University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing.
In addition to this, I have improved my English language and intercultural skills with that experience abroad.
During this time, I also had my first work experience as an intern at Bayer Technology Services GmbH in Leverkusen. There, I and a teammate have been given the task of developing a module for the standard software e-Dis. This module would analyze the occupancy data of factory machines and make a Gantt graph out of it. As technologies, VB.NET and Oracle were used.
After graduation, I started working at Siemens AG in Bonn. My duties at Siemens AG included development and maintenance of the plant engineering software Comos’ P&ID and FEED modules. I also worked on the development of a new 2D CAE application, which should replace the older Comos 2D drawing components. As technologies, VB6, C#.NET, WPF, the Prism framework and agile methods such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD were used.
After 2 and a half years there, I applied for a job at Siemens A.S. in Istanbul and got hired. At Siemens A.S., I developed a software that monitors the energy consumption of PLC devices and aims to reduce it. Furthermore did I do bugfixings and performance optimizations for the software TIA Portal. As technologies, Telerik UI with C#.NET and WPF and JetBrains’ dotTrace were used.
Currently I’m working at an IT services company in Cologne on a document management system (DMS) with emphasis on the front end / GUI development using WPF and the Prism framework.
Privately, I like going out, travelling the world and taking photos, or when I’m at home, reading books and technical magazines, playing the guitar, or blogging about technical stuff.