Peer Stritzinger

Peer discovered Erlang in 2007 and has been relying on it ever since. Fascinated by all its emergent properties which are quite non-obvious from afar. Around it, he found the best developer community one could wish to be part of. He is the Founder and Director of Peer Stritzinger GmbH which created GRiSP www.grisp.org, a platform to run Erlang on small embedded systems and focuses on building Automotive, Industrial IoT, and Smart Cities applications and tries to use Erlang technology wherever useful. Participating in several EU-funded research projects, he is trying to push the envelope for what can be done with Erlang and the other languages on the BEAM. Peer’s previous experience ranges from low-level device drivers to functional languages in industrial and automotive applications. He initially mastered physics at the Technical University of Munich. He has been working self-employed as a developer since 1987 and also consulted in applied cryptography and protocol design and implementation. He has been living and working in the idyllic countryside west of Munich, Bavaria.