about kai 'oswald' seidler

»kai is an it graduate, a james hetfield look-alike, dresses in black and uses the vi editor like a swiss army knife.«
ed tanguay, webdeveloper's journal, 2000

»german programmer lives in berlin and works with linux. he's fashioned a site with much in english, including links to german edition of tv show "thirtysomething," his favorite japanese music performers, and a chat program he authored.« excite review, 1996

short bio
kai was born in hamburg in 1970. he graduated from technical university of berlin with a diplom informatiker degree (equivalent to a master in computer science). in the 90's he created and managed germany's biggest ircnet server irc.fu-berlin.de, and co-managed one of the world's largest ftp server ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. he professionally set up his first public webserver in 1993. from 1993 until 1998 he was member of projektgruppe kulturraum internet, a research project on net culture and network organization.

2002, he co-founded apache friends and created the multi-platform apache web server bundle xampp. around 2005 xampp became the most popular apache stack worldwide. in 2006, his third book, das xampp-handbuch, was published by addison wesley.

currently kai works as senior engineer/technology evangelist for web tier products at sun microsystems.