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Walter A. Jablonowski

AI Systems & App Development
25+ years of development experience

What I deliver for you

AI Agents & Automation – autonomous workflows that measurably accelerate business processes
Data Solutions – from pipelines through analytics to scalable data platforms
App Development – high-performance web & mobile apps, AI-assisted and built in record time
Architecture & Consulting – 25+ years of experience across languages, stacks and industries

Technology Focus

AI Agents LLM Integration MCP Prompt Engineering PHP JavaScript Python TypeScript SQL MySQL / MariaDB Oracle SQL Server

Languages

German Native speaker
English C1 · confident in reading, writing and comprehension
Availability
Immediately
Freelance
up to 100 %
Permanent role
16–20 h, temporarily full-time
Engagement
Remote / Hybrid
Location
Bamberg, DE
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Profile

Software developer with over 25 years of professional experience designing and building demanding applications. Current focus: AI systems – from autonomous AI agents through business process automation to data solutions with LLM integration. I develop consistently AI-assisted myself and therefore deliver substantially faster at consistently high quality. Broad technology experience across many languages and stacks lets me get up to speed quickly in any environment.

25+
Years of professional software development
40+
Successfully completed projects
10+
Programming languages used in production
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Services

AI Agents & Automation

Autonomous agent systems and workflow automation that take over repetitive business processes – including tool integration and monitoring.

Data Solutions

Retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, data pipelines and analytics – from architecture through to operations.

App Development

Web and mobile applications, AI-assisted development: shorter time to market with no loss of quality.

Architecture & Project Management

System architecture, technology selection, code reviews and modernisation, plus technical project management.

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Core Competencies

AI

AI-assisted development
Python, TypeScript
MS Agent Framework
OpenClaw, HermesNew

Web Development

PHP
OOAD
JavaScript
HTML, CSS

Database

SQL
Relational DB design
MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle

Earlier Projects

C# Java C/C++ Objective-C .NET iOS apps Android UML XML/XSLT Xcode Visual Basic VBA
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AI Skills in Detail

Agents & Orchestration

AI agents & tool use
MCP
LangChain / LangGraph

LLM Integration

LLM integration
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal AI (vision, speech)

Data & Retrieval

Data pipelines
Embeddings & semantic search
Vector databases

Evaluation & Validation

LLM Evaluation
Pydantic
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Project History

The more recent projects listed (built with AI) are only a selection – many further projects exist, since AI makes very rapid development possible. Older projects were written by hand.
08/2026 – present
ongoing
AI / Development

Autonomous Software Development – Harness for Iterative Improvement

Concept, architecture, development
  • Runner for autonomous iterative improvement: a goal and a budget are set, and the system works a deliverable in focused individual steps
  • Assessment is done by a second, independent agent instance with read-only permissions – probabilistic scoring, but deterministic control flow with defined abort paths
Stack: Python · Claude Code CLI · YAML · NDJSON · HTML · JavaScript · pytest
08/2026 – present
ongoing
AI / Back Office

Framework for AI Automation of Back-Office Processes

Concept, architecture, development
  • Modular automation of document and knowledge work, installed on the customer’s own premises; nine step types from parsing to approval, four parsing stages up to OCR
  • Incoming invoice module based on EN 16931 with an end-to-end audit trail, budget limits, simulation mode and persistent human approvals
Stack: Python · SQLite · Gemini · Ollama · YAML · Docker · REST · OCR · pytest
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Project History (continued)

07/2026 – present
ongoing
AI / Development

Central Monitoring of AI Coding Agents Working in Parallel

Concept, architecture, development
  • A single read-only window shows what every coding agent is working on across all projects – type of action, command, purpose and runtime, sorted by urgency
  • Per-session metrics with cost, context utilisation and changed files, including a jump into the already open editor instance
Stack: Python · aiohttp · YAML · HTML · JavaScript · CSS · PowerShell
07/2026
1 month
AI / Customer Service

AI-Assisted Support System with Escalation to Humans

Analysis, architecture, development
  • End-to-end path from web capture through the ticket and the knowledge-based chat to handover to a human agent
  • Answers are grounded against a knowledge base and backed by sources; the conversation state per ticket is held multi-tenant in a YAML file
Stack: Python · FastAPI · OpenRouter · BM25 · YAML · PHP · JavaScript · pytest
07/2026
1 month
AI / Marketing

SEO Agent for Classic and AI-Assisted Search

Concept, architecture, development
  • Scheduled agent that audits a website, reworks pages for both classic and AI-assisted search and delivers the result on a branch of its own
  • Data from crawl, Search Console, Analytics, SERP and AI citations is condensed into findings; interchangeable adapters per building block, full restore if a check fails
Stack: Python · OpenRouter · Gemini · Ollama · SQLite · Search Console · GA4 · Git
05/2026 – present
ongoing
AI / Knowledge

Agentically Maintained Knowledge Base

Concept, architecture, development
  • File-based knowledge base in Markdown that an internal AI agent organises on its own: placing, restructuring, index maintenance and resolving contradictions
  • Every change is atomic, logged, versioned and reversible; a detected inconsistency freezes the database – crash-safe on file system primitives alone
Stack: Python · Anthropic API · OpenRouter · Gemini · Markdown · YAML · pytest
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Project History (continued)

04/2026 – 07/2026
4 months
AI / IT Operations

Log Viewer with AI Analysis for Arbitrary Formats

Concept, architecture, development
  • Central view for log files in any format with AI-assisted analysis; over 100,000 entries per file stay manageable through database synchronisation
  • Pluggable type system of detection, parser and renderer, plus a filter language whose expressions can be saved and generated by the AI
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · SQLite · MySQL · SQL · JavaScript · HTML · CSS
12/2025 – 01/2026
1 month
AI / Sales

Natural Language Database Querying

Concept, architecture, development
  • Questions in natural language are translated into SQL, validated before execution and presented as a table or chart
  • Several databases at once: the model picks the right source itself and also answers questions that span database boundaries
Stack: Python · FastAPI · MCP · Gemini · OpenRouter · SQLite · MySQL · Jinja2
11/2025 – 07/2026
9 months
AI / Web

Voice Agent for Customer Support on the Website

Concept, architecture, development
  • Voice assistant on the website that answers visitor questions in dialogue and calls tools while doing so, such as navigating to the relevant page
  • Real-time audio over WebSocket to a live speech model, brokered by a custom relay service that keeps keys and system prompt away from the browser; bilingual German and English
Stack: JavaScript · WebSocket · Cloudflare Workers · Gemini Live · Web Audio API
10/2025 – 04/2026
6 months
Self-Management

Application for Activity and Feedback Tracking

Concept, architecture, development
  • Tool for recording your own activities over the year – what was actually done and how much time things really take
  • Project and calendar view onto the same data, deliberately designed around condensed highlights rather than individual events; multi-user and database-free
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Composer
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Project History (continued)

10/2025 – present
ongoing
AI / Tasks

AI-Assisted Time-Based Task Board

Concept, architecture, development
  • Task board along the time axis of current and upcoming tasks, plus a scrollable bar of months, weeks and days reaching into coming years
  • AI sidebar with tool access to the entire board, every proposed change acceptable individually; archiving happens automatically at the turn of the month
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · OpenRouter · Gemini · Ollama
08/2025 – present
ongoing
Tools

Snippet and Prompt Management with System Integration

Concept, architecture, development
  • File-system-based management of reusable text blocks and prompts, with nested inclusion and reuse without duplication
  • Two interfaces onto the same data: a web application for maintenance and a Windows application that inserts at the cursor position via a system-wide keyboard shortcut
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · JavaScript · CSS · C# · .NET 8 · WinForms
06/2025 – 04/2026
10 months
Software

Markdown Editor as a Dependency-Free Browser Library

Concept, architecture, development
  • Editor library for the browser with no dependencies at all: no build step, no bundler, no server – included via a single script tag
  • Extensible through registered specification classes per markup element, with a switchable end-user and expert mode; developed entirely AI-assisted
Stack: JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Markdown · PHP
04/2025 – present
ongoing
Information

Condensing Large Amounts of Information into a Single View

Concept, architecture, development
  • Board that bundles large amounts of information into a small space, to create an overview in the first place and keep it usable
  • AI sidebar that reads the board and changes it structurally; stable direct references survive renaming and moving, with a backup before every write
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Composer
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Project History (continued)

12/2024 – 06/2026
18 months
Software

Filter Component with Its Own Expression Language

Concept, architecture, development
  • Reusable component that evaluates complex boolean filters against a full text or against nested records – for crawlers and interfaces with typed-in filters
  • Custom expression language with parentheses, regular expressions, set and length checks, chronological date comparison and an optional synonym list
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · Composer · regular expressions
11/2024 – present
ongoing
AI / Projects

AI-Assisted Board for Steering Many Projects

Concept, architecture, development
  • Board for steering a larger number of parallel projects with hierarchical tags and search across the current state, including unsaved changes
  • AI sidebar that reads the board along with linked files and changes any structure through tool calls; file access stays confined to a base directory
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Google AI Studio · OpenRouter
03/2024 – present
ongoing
Health

Nutrient Tracking with Minimal Interaction Effort

Concept, architecture, development
  • Daily tracking of nutrient intake across roughly 43 vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids – an analysis that cannot be done by hand
  • Rigorously designed around few interaction steps and extended with exercise, supplements and finances; in continuous daily personal use since the start of 2024
Stack: PHP · Symfony YAML · JavaScript · HTML · CSS · Composer
08/2021
1 month
Recycling

Backend / UI for External Information Access

Development
  • Backend and UI for external partners
Stack: JavaScript · HTML · CSS · C# · .NET
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Project History (continued)

01/2021 – 07/2024
43 months
Statistics

Further Development of a Statistics Web Application

Development
  • Further development of a web application in the field of statistical data
Stack: PHP · HTML · AdminLTE · Chart.js · CSS · JavaScript · jQuery
05/2019 – 01/2021
21 months
Advertising

New Web Application for Business Administration

Development
  • Database-driven application for handling business operations, replacing a legacy system
  • Development with as few dependencies as possible, to give the application a very long service life and minimise migration effort caused by frameworks
  • Generating interfaces from building blocks, further components for a small framework including an ORM
  • Developing the database and forms on top of the framework
Stack: Custom framework · PHP · JavaScript · jQuery · BS · MariaDB · SQL
01/2018 – present
ongoing
Open Source

Development of Open Source Applications and Components

Development
  • Development of open source components and applications (github.com/walter-a-jablonowski); not all of it is published
  • Focus on simplicity, in contrast to the general trend towards ever more complex web frameworks, and on automation – the same result can often be achieved with far less complex means
  • Areas of interest: information management, tools for data acquisition and communication, framework components, tools
Stack: PHP · JavaScript · jQuery · YAML · JSON · BS · HTML · CSS
11/2015 – 01/2016
3 months
Publishing

Extension of an iOS Application, iPad Version, Port to Android

Development
  • Extending an iOS application from the publishing sector with filter functions and various UI features
  • Migrating the data from files to SQLite using a self-written tool, rewriting the data core
  • iPad version, port to Android
Stack: Objective-C · Java · PHP · Xcode · Android Studio
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Project History (continued)

09/2015 – 10/2015
2 months
Publishing

Extension of an iOS Application

Development
  • Extending an iOS application with UI features
  • Switching the barcode scanner from a library to the iOS SDK, updating libraries
Stack: Objective-C · Xcode
09/2015 – 12/2017
23 months
Statistics

New Statistics Web Application

Development
  • New development of a web application in the field of statistical data
  • Layout based on AdminLTE, implementation of the graphic design, animated menus and the like
  • Custom classes for the app (base classes, App, ErrorHandler, DB, Log, Data, Captions etc.) plus client-server communication and a custom templating system
  • Dashboard with various charts based on data collected via SDK and Chart.js, rearranging of widgets
  • Generating user-defined charts, YAML chart definition format
  • Data lists with grouping, expandable, sorting, (i) buttons with additional popup information, detail view with data list, list functions, menus
  • Mobile view for phone and tablet with design adjustments (responsive)
  • User settings, admin, user help, about, imprint, privacy and further functions
Stack: PHP 5/7 · HTML · AdminLTE · Chart.js · CSS · JavaScript · jQuery · YAML
02/2015 – 03/2015
2 months
E-Commerce

Contribution to an eCommerce System

Development
  • Contributing to an eCommerce system
Stack: PHP
08/2012 – 10/2012
3 months
Embedded

Development with .NET Gadgeteer

Analysis, design, development
  • Development with .NET Gadgeteer (in-house project)
Stack: C# · .NET Framework · .NET Micro Framework · .NET Gadgeteer Hardware
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Project History (continued)

02/2012
1 month
Software

Contribution to an iPhone App for a Web 2.0 Platform

Development
  • Contributing to an iPhone app – the iPhone version of a Web 2.0 platform
Stack: iOS SDK 5 · Objective-C · Xcode
07/2011 – 09/2011
3 months
Media

Development of a Web 2.0 Web Application

Planning, analysis, architecture, development
  • Development of a Web 2.0 application in the field of feed aggregation
  • Backend with data layer and backend functions, web frontend
Stack: PHP 4 · HTML · CSS · XML · JavaScript · jQuery
12/2010
1 month
Automotive

Automotive iPhone App, Training of Developers

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of an iPhone app for vehicle information as a basis for further app development; the functional details of the project are confidential
  • Training developers using the app
Stack: iOS SDK 4 · Objective-C · Xcode · Interface Builder · Web Services · XML
10/2010 – 12/2010
3 months
Services

Development of an iPhone App in Consumer Services

Analysis, design, development
  • Contributing to the development of a service platform as an iPhone app in the consumer services sector
Stack: iOS SDK 4 · Objective-C · Xcode · Interface Builder · Web Requests · XML
07/2010 – 08/2010
2 months
Advertising / B2B

Development of a News iPhone App

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of an iPhone app for communicating news items in the B2B sector
  • News presented as a list, detail view and PDF view, plus push messages, user login and an access log in the database
  • Both the iPhone app and a server interface were developed, the latter making existing data (news, PDF) accessible for use in the app
Stack: iOS SDK 4 · Objective-C · Xcode · PHP 4 · MySQL · SOAP · Push
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Project History (continued)

07/2010 – 08/2010
2 months
Telecommunications

Development of an iPhone App for a Telecommunications Group

Program design, development
  • Development of an iPhone app for a large German telecommunications group in the area of fee payment
Stack: Apple iPhone SDK 3 · Objective-C · Xcode · Interface Builder
11/2009
1 month
Real Estate

New iPhone App for a Real Estate Portal

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of an app as an entry point to the platform of a real estate portal
  • Querying location information (GPS), searching and displaying properties from the database by search text/location or geo coordinates, plus user login
Stack: iOS SDK 3 · Objective-C · Xcode · Interface Builder · GPS API
02/2009 – 12/2009
11 months
Public Sector

SQL Server Database Development

Database developer
  • SQL development in a large database system used to manage the entire nationwide inventory of a German federal agency
  • Implementing RfCs (requests for change), developing reports, complex bulk data changes
Stack: MS SQL Server 2000/2008 · SQL · Reporting · DTS · Crystal Reports · .NET
01/2009 – 03/2009
3 months
Media

iPhone Radio Apps

Development
  • Contributing to several iPhone apps for receiving radio broadcasts on the iPhone
Stack: iOS SDK 3 · Objective-C · Xcode · Interface Builder
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Project History (continued)

07/2008
1 month
Software

Tool for Time Tracking, Project Tracking and Billing in Software Projects

Analysis, design, development
  • Main purpose: monitoring budget compliance in software projects
  • Development of an Access-based multi-user solution for recording working hours per order or task, with analysis for tracking adherence to schedules and budgets, plus functions for billing end customers and staff
  • Order management, task overview per user with the option to assign tasks to users, an integrated specification document per order
  • User management with different access rights depending on the user role (developer, management)
Stack: MS Access 2003 · VBA · SQL
03/2008
1 month
Technical Documentation

Bug Reporting Component Connected to a Bug Tracking System

Development
  • Development of a problem report component for an application in the technical documentation sector
  • Connection to a bug tracking system
Stack: C# · Visual Studio 2008 · .NET Framework 3.0 · WPF · Web Services
12/2007 – 03/2008
4 months
ERP / SME

New Development of an ERP System

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of an ERP/invoicing system for SMEs with customer master data, supplier master data, articles, prices per supplier, sales orders, purchase orders and a complete document history per transaction
  • Interface optimised for ease of use, search and filter functions, printing functions
  • Design of the relational data model, SQL development, user interface design, development of the client application
  • Approx. 60 % implemented; the customer postponed completion to the end of 2008
Stack: Visual Basic .NET · .NET Framework · WinForms · ADO.NET · MS Access
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Project History (continued)

11/2007,
07/2008 – 08/2008
3 months
Industry

New Application for Data Cleansing

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of software for flexible validation and cleansing of large Oracle databases holding several million records (statistical data from industrial production)
  • Later: advisory work on integrating the tool into a larger application, implementation of further components
Stack: Visual Basic .NET · .NET Framework · WinForms · Oracle · PL/SQL · Q-DAS
04/2008 – 05/2008
2 months
Industry

Component for Building Hierarchical Data Filters

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of a general-purpose component (DLL) for building hierarchical, user-defined (unbounded) data filters in VB.NET applications
  • XML format for filter definitions; the component was intended for use in several applications
Stack: Visual Basic .NET · .NET Framework · WinForms · Oracle · PL/SQL · XML
07/2007 – 12/2008
18 months
Industry

New Application for IT Support

Analysis, design, development
  • New development of an application for in-plant IT support with a ticket system, storage of every action per ticket (complete history) and a ticket workflow that accounts for subcontractors
  • Sending email from the application, knowledge base, analysis reports, extensive graphical evaluations (bar and pie charts including hierarchical data filters), printing of all data, access permissions and a good deal more
  • Development of the complete application: design of the relational data model, queries and procedures in PL/SQL, the entire client application, ongoing development to requirements
  • 08/2008: development of a modified version of the application for another department
Stack: Visual Basic .NET · .NET Framework · WinForms · ADO.NET · Oracle · PL/SQL
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Project History (continued)

02/2007 – 12/2008
23 months
Industry

New Plant-Wide Application for User and Access Control

Analysis, design, development
  • New development of an application for centralised management, validation and provisioning of data, user accounts and access rights for in-house applications
  • Extensive data import functions to supply the data from five source systems
  • Connecting third-party applications in order to centralise program access; in its final stage up to 70 applications and a multiple of that in installations
  • Overviews and reports on all account data for management purposes
  • Development of the complete application: design of the relational data model, queries and procedures in PL/SQL, the entire client application, ongoing development to requirements
Stack: Visual Basic .NET · C# · .NET Framework · WinForms · Oracle · PL/SQL · XML
01/2007
1 month
Industry

Extension of an Application for Worldwide File Exchange

Development
  • Extending an application for automated worldwide updating and distribution of files with several features (in user clients and a Windows service)
Stack: Visual Basic .NET · .NET Framework · SQLite · Sparx EA UML Tool
12/2004 – 02/2006
15 months
Furniture Retail

New ERP Application for Solid Wood Furniture Sales

Planning, analysis, design, development
  • Development of a complete ERP system for handling the trade in solid wood furniture and sales via the internet
  • Automation of sales through the purpose-built web shop and the eBay platform
Stack: MS Access XP · MySQL · PHP 4 · Visual Studio · C#
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Project History (continued)

11/2004 – 12/2004
2 months
Software

Preparation for Reworking Approx. 10 Access Applications

Analysis, design, development
  • Preparations for reworking approx. 10 Access applications after the move to Service Pack 2 of Windows XP
  • Requirements analysis, implementation for automated program conversion
Stack: MS Access XP · Visual Studio
10/2004
1 month
Mechanical Engineering

Technical Proposal for the Redesign of a Client/Server Application

Analysis
  • Pre-study for the redesign of a project controlling system, analysis of the existing system with 140 users at two sites
  • Preparation of a technical study with several redesign strategies, time and cost estimates
Stack: Sybase database · PowerBuilder (for testing)
07/2004 – 10/2004
4 months
Print / Media

Development of a Web Platform for Print Solutions

Development
  • Development of a web platform for print solutions (product development)
  • Project not pursued further after 10/2004
Stack: PHP 5 · SQL · MySQL · HTML · XAMPP
01/2002 – 11/2002
11 months
Concrete Industry

Contribution to the New Development of an Application Framework

Development
  • Contributing to the implementation of an application framework for commercial and technical applications
  • Function: generating the relational data model, GUI and configurable interface logic at runtime (based on a UML model in XML form)
Stack: Java · XML · XSLT · Together UML · JBuilder
10/2001 – 12/2001
3 months
Concrete Industry

Euro Conversion of an Invoicing Application

Analysis, design, development
  • Development of a tool for converting approx. 300 installations to the euro (10/2001)
  • Subsequently carrying out the conversion for all customers step by step
Stack: MS Visual C
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Project History (continued)

02/2001 – 06/2002
17 months
Concrete Industry

New Software for Production Control in Concrete Plants

Project management / development
  • New development of software for production in concrete plants: production control, order processing, collection of production data, generation of statistical reports, integration with invoicing systems
  • On-site installations with customer-specific customisation at plants in Germany and northern France: developing extensions to requirements, adapting formats to the plant equipment and to commercial software
  • Responsibilities: project management, customer consulting, analysis and design, GUI workflow, implementation of core functionality, coordination with a manufacturer of control systems
Stack: MS Access · Visual Basic · Winsock · SQL Server
01/2001 – 02/2001
2 months
Concrete Industry

Migration of Fleet Scheduling Software

Analysis, development
  • Migration of a very large fleet scheduling application from Borland C++ to Visual C++ and Win32
Stack: Borland C++ · Visual C++ · Visual Basic (resource file code generation)
09/2000 – 01/2003
29 months
Concrete Industry

Further Development of 3 Software Products

Analysis, design, development
  • Development work on 3 products (invoicing, financial accounting and fleet scheduling)
  • Development of functional extensions to requirements
  • Creating and adapting forms (Forth-like language)
  • Creating and adapting import/export interfaces (production plants, financial accounting …)
Stack: C · Visual C++ · Borland C++ · MFC · dBase IV/V · Forth-like language
01/1996 – 09/1999
3 years 9 months
Software

Working at a Software Company While Still at School

Development
  • Various projects as a part-time job while at school: further development of financial accounting software, various tools
Stack: MS Access · Visual Basic · C · Visual C++ · MFC
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Education

2003
IT Specialist qualification (IHK)IT Specialist for Application Development
1996 – 1999
Part-time work while at schoolDevelopment for a software company
from 1992
Started programmingAt the age of 14 (Borland C)
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Interests

Professional
AI · Information management · Minimalist web apps · Cloud · UX · Innovative technologies · Nonprofit software · Blockchain
Personal
Nutrition
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Contact

I look forward to your project inquiry – walterjab@outlook.com · +49 160 99658047 · walter-a-jablonowski.github.io