Although living on a tropical island, Jochen Kirstätter is a business owner and entrepreneur in different industry sectors. Mainly operating in the development of tailor-made software solutions since more than 20 years, he is also venturing into the world of cloud computing. You can either meet him at the weekly Code & Coffee meetups of the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community or reach him on Twitter: @JKirstaetter.

Jochen is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Google Cloud and used to be Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies for several years. He founded the now largest IT community in Mauritius, and organises the annual Developers Conference. Following his interest in cross-platform technologies he is also an organiser of the Google Developer Group (GDG) Mauritius.