Silvan Scherrer started using OS/2 with Warp 3 releases. He works as chief technical officer at AROA Informatik AG. At early 2008 he started to port software to OS/2 on opensource projects like Samba, Lucide, Smplayer, QBittorrent and many others. He also worked as projectmanager for the Qt4 port, OpenJDK6 and some smaller projects.
In 2012 he founded with Dmitriy Kuminov and Herwig Bauernfeind bww bitwise works GmbH. He is the chief technical officer at bww and responsible for project management and opensource ports.