Dirk Thomas holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and works at the Simulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics Group at TU Darmstadt, Germany. His focus is on efficient middlware design and software architectures especially in the context of autonomous mobile robots. In the context of the RoboCup he won the world championship multiple times - with the four-legged Aibo-Robots of the Darmstadt Dribbling Dackels as well as with the two-legged humanoids of the Darmstadt Dribblers.
During his studies and doctoral research Dirk Thomas was a managing partner of 4wd media. He was especially attended to the development of complex web appliances in PHP as well as programming applications using Adobe Flex.
In his spare time Dirk is maintaining the Open-Source project WebSVN - a PHP application to browse Subversion repositories online.