Thomas Xaver Endres

Thomas Xaver Endres

Principal Consultant, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH

Thomas Endres is an IT consultant at TNG Technology Consulting in Munich. Besides his normal work for the customer, he is creating various prototypes, such as a see-through augmented reality device or a telepresence robotics system with the company's hardware hacking team. In his spare time, he is working on gesture control applications, i.e., for controlling quadrocopters with bare hands. He is also involved in other open source projects written in Java, C# and all kinds of JavaScript languages. Apart from this, he is working as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Landshut.

Thomas studied IT at the TU Munich and is passionate about software development and all the other aspects of technology. As an Intel Software Innovator and Black Belt, he is promoting new technologies like gesture control, AR/VR and robotics around the world. He has recently received a JavaOne Rockstar award.