Curious what topics I’m currently into? The log below might give you an idea…
Books
Reading technical books is one of my passions. I’m strongly taking advnantage of great resources such as O’Reilly Online Learning Enterprise provided via IBM, or individual books that I bought myself from Amazon. And to be honest, many great books are just a few clicks away when spending a few minutes searching on Google or GitHub.
Over time, I realized reading books instead of watching vidoes or courses helps me much better to remember its content, and is generally a better reference to get back to it, once I really need that previously learned content. Might be a personal thing. But well, that’s how my brain seems to work. I always have a book at hand whenever I’m sitting passivly in the backrow of a car, when I use public transport, or when I’m relaxing in a park nearby. To either deepen my knowledge in topics that I’m currently dealing with either at work or my personal projects. Or to learn something completely new and to broaden my horizen.
The following list of book only contains the titles where I read the full book from start to end, except stated differently.
2024
2023
2022
| Book title | |
|---|---|
| Designing Machine Learning Systems | |
| Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 4 and Firebase | |
| Beginning React and Firebase | |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | |
 | Cracking the Coding Interview |
2021
2020
| Book title | |
|---|---|
| The Site Reliability Workbook (Part 1) | |
| Stream Processing with Apache Flink | |
| Building Microservices | |
| Modern Full-Stack Development |
2019
2018
| Book title | |
|---|---|
 | Deep Learning with Python |
| Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow | |
| Docker for Data Science |
2017
| Book title | |
|---|---|
| Big Data Analytics with Spark | |
| Practical Statistics for Data Scientists | |
 | Deep Learning with TensorFlow |
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
| Book title | |
|---|---|
| Pro HTML5 Games |
2011
| Book title | |
|---|---|
 | XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example |
2010
| Book title | |
|---|---|
| Extreme Programming Explained |
2009
2008
2007
| Book title | |
|---|---|
 | Java ist auch eine Insel |
Badges
The following is an extract of a few digital credentials that I earned over the last few years:
An IBM Expert Developer is recognized as a Subject Matter Expert and leads others in their work, providing innovative ideas, working across multiple business units and/or geographies
For 200+ hours of learning and earning 9 digital credentials in 2023 (top 5% within IBM)
For 130+ hours of learning in 2022 (top 34% within IBM)
A few more of my badges or digital credentials can be found on my Credly profile.
Online Courses
I’m taking advantage of various free or paid online video courses, such as Coursera, EdX, Udemy or O’Reilly Online Learning. Most of the respective certificates for these courses can be found on my LinkedIn profile.