About

Hi, my name is Patrick Gotthardt and I am currently studying computer science at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany.

During the last years I have picked up a lot of knowledge in many fields of software development. Ranging from creating Web-Applications, to creating Desktop Applications and eventually Command Line Applications and language recognizers and translators as well as automation tools (i.e. pake). I’m fluent with a variety of programming languages including Java, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and posess some knowledge of Scala, C#, Lisp and others.

In June, 2006, I had the opportunity to support one of my professors — Prof. Helmut Balzert — in writing the book “Java 5: Objektorientierte Programmierung” (in english: “Java 5: Object oriented programming”). This collaboration has been expanded when Prof. Balzert wrote “Java 6: Anwendungsentwicklung” where I got the chance to contributed a chapter on developing custom and specialized LayoutManagers for Swing.

I have worked as an independend consultant for Jidesoft, as a freelancer, as a tutor for Web-Engineering and as developer of a software project at the university. Currently I am working as a Tutor for math and english at a local tutoring center.

Recent Clients

Akupunktur-Bottrop

A very simple yet attractive Website for a local medical doctor. It has been designed and developed by Pagosoft in December 2009. Following the clients request, the Site was developed without a CMS as a static Website using Jekyll.

dr-hoffmann.info

Another Website developed for a medical doctor. It is build using nanoc, a static site generator, and utilizes the 960.gs css framework.

Spookycats

Spookycats.de is a platform for independent artist willing to sell their products. It provides a complete Shop-System. The design was provided through a third-party.

yWorks

The CMS that powers the website has been developed by me, as well as the implementation of the website in XHTML.

mykro Logo

The client requested a simple yet elegant logo. The website was not designed by me.

wg-buffet.de

I acted as a consultant on that project (based on symfony1) and created the design.

aiutare.de

“aiutare” is italian for “to help” and is the web presentation of my private tutoring business. I’ve chosen a simple design that puts emphasize on the content while providing a few visual effects to please the eye. The logo has also been designed by me.