Education
University of Siegen.
software engineer information technology consultant
University of Siegen.
Lars is an independent Information Technology Consultant based in London, United Kingdom. Lars has been active in open software projects, and most notably the Apache HTTP Server project He served as Vice President, Conference Planning from 2007 to 2009.
Since 2008 Lars works as an independent Information Technology consultant and worked for companies such as the British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4, Heise Media, and El Tiempo.
Lars is owner and managing director of Primevation Limited, and partner at pliXos GmbH. Previous employers of Lars Eilebrecht include Ciphire Labs, Quam, Parc Technologies, CyberSolutions, and Cable & Wireless. Lars has an interest in Information Technology security and cryptography.
He was Director Security Solutions and Chief Security Architect at Ciphire Labs, and speaker at conferences such as Financial Cryptography and Data Security and the 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21C3). In 1998 Lars received a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Siegen in Germany.
Since the beginning of the Apache Software Foundation he was a member of the Conferences Committee helping the foundation to organise ApacheCon events. Additionally he is a member of the ASF Security Team and the ASF Public Relations Committee. Lars was a member of the International Financial Cryptography Association from 2005 to 2006.