
Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Computer Engineering degree at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.įounded a German non-profit organization for supporting the ReactOS Project legally and financially.ĭoing whatever it takes to keep it running. Code written during my thesis and employmentĢ015: Analysis, Design and Implementation of a Printing Stack for the Open-Source ReactOS Operating System.Introducing HermitCore-rs, a Unikernel written in Rust.Subsequent employment at RWTH's Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS). Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Computer Engineering degree at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Writing Win32 apps like it's 2020 with Wizard-2020 as a DPI-aware resizable wizard written in Win32 API and modern C++Ģ017/2018: Evaluation of Rust for Operating System Development and Porting Key Components of the HermitCore Unikernel.S7-Project-Explorer, a tool to explore Siemens STEP 7 projects and export a complete PLC variable list as CSV.PortSniffer, a serial/parallel port monitor for recent Windows (32 and 64 bit) with pluggable API.EnlyzeWinCompatLib to develop modern C++ applications for Windows 2000, and even for Windows NT 4.

Reverse-engineering proprietary systems in the industrial manufacturing space and writing compatible connectors in C++ and Rust to aggregate live process data.
REACTOS 2018 SOFTWARE
I relaunched this website in 2021 to write about my latest projects and experiences.Įxperience 2018 - today: Software Engineer at ENLYZE I am now using Rust for new projects wherever possible. Used correctly, it cannot only prevent 70% of security issues out there, but also significantly helps with collaboration, code reusability, and even coding style - all things where C/C++ has given me a hard time over the years. In 2017, I got in touch with the Rust programming language thanks to my Master thesis project, and I have fully embraced it since then. in 2009, a German non-profit organization to support ReactOS legally and financially, and I'm serving as one of its Board members ever since.

REACTOS 2018 DRIVER
I was also the main driver behind the establishment of ReactOS Deutschland e.V. In 2007, I joined the ReactOS Project to dig deeper into Windows internals and held various roles over the years (Kernel & User Mode Development, Release Engineering, System Administration, Project Management). I originally started this website in 2003 to publish some of the tools I developed for then prevalent Windows problems and system recovery tasks. My name is Colin Finck and I'm a Software Engineer with interests ranging from low-level system development to high-level tools that ease daily tasks.
