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Ralf Schwoebel, aka "puzzler"
Ralf got into e-commerce, when he opened the first internet shopping mall in Germany
in 1995 at the age of 22. His background as a game developer and book author on the
Commodore AMIGA helped him to thrive in the new internet era.
In 1997 he was founder and from 1997 to 2000 on the management board of the Open
Source e-commerce company intraDAT.
From 2000 to 2002 he was CEO of intraDAT International, Inc. - based in Reston, VA.
where he held serveral presentations about Open Source developments and e-commerce
projects on Linux.
He is still an active member of the Linux community and sponsors serveral Open Source
projects.
In 2005 he wrote the concept for an Open Source graphical deployment framework for
PHP-GTK programs (called Gnope) and sponsored the development.
Gnope was recieved with great acceptance by the PHP community.
As the founder and CEO of Tradebit, Inc. he is responsible for business development and
the strategy. He still loves to code in PHP though and his colleagues try to get him from the keyboard.
He is married and an active blogger.
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