This is my bio taken from the GSoC application:
My name is Michael Aram. I am currently enrolled in the master's program "Information Systems" at the "Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration" - I successfully finished the corresponding bachelor's program in 2007. During my studies, I have been working half-time almost permanently. Most worth mentioning - especially for this application - is my job at the "Institute for Information Systems and New Media": Up to October 2008, I was working in the Learn@WU project team, which drives the dotLRN based e-learning platform of my university. During this time, I wrote my bachelor's thesis about a new "Portal System for OpenACS", which was awarded by IBM in the context of a cross-university "Web 2.0 Student Contest". I spent the last six months at SAP headquarters in Germany working on my master's thesis. I am leaving SAP by now, submit my finished master thesis and concentrate then on the doctorate program in Vienna.
The fundamentals of my technical skills come from the relevant university courses on the one hand, and my personal passion for web technologies on the other hand. My studies included a wide range of practical and theoretical seminars about software modeling and programming, with a focus on Java and XOTcl. Through my personal interest for" the net", I have spent a lot of spare time with basic web technologies (like HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and "played around" with CMS like Typo3 and Drupal.
In my two years of work at the Learn@WU project, I had the chance to become familiar with the "common set of technologies" you need to run a dotLRN instance, i.e. in particular Tcl, PostgreSQL (PL/pgSQL), OpenACS, AOLserver, Linux. In addition to that, as my bachlor's thesis was a prototype of an AJAX application based on XOWiki, I delved deeper into XOTcl and JavaScript (using the YUI 2.* framework).
During the last six months at SAP, at the development center in Walldorf, Germany, I had the chance to participate in one of their software development projects. We implemented a prototype application for semantic data modeling based on the Java EE architecture.
I would classify myself as an emerging, highly motivated developer, who is greatly interested in object oriented programming.