About Carsten Haitzler
Born 1975. Carsten Haitzler is an Australian, Nigerian and German software engineer and computer scientist.
Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager and its libraries.
Life and work In 1997 Haitzler moved to North Carolina, U.S. to work for Red Hat in the development of the CORBA, Xlib, GTK+ libraries, then later moved to work with VA Linux Systems.
Between 2010 and 2018 he worked on Samsung's Linux platform Tizen.
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Who is Carsten Haitzler?
Australian software engineer
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Carsten Haitzler was born on 29 November 1975 in Nigeria.
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Carsten Haitzler is a software engineer and computer scientist.
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Carsten Haitzler is Australian, Nigerian and German.
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