About us
“IIKANGAE” is Japanese and translates as “good idea”.
We conceived IKANGAI Solutions as an idea factory for mobile applications.
Our core goals in everything we do are:
- Simplicity
- Elegance
- Creativity
IKANGAI Solutions is a group of friends coming from diverse professional backgrounds (architecture, computer science, economy, art, design) working together on this project as a creative outlet and technical playground.
Christian Scherling — Design
Christian is a freelance architect, designer and the creative mind behind IKANGAI Solutions.
He studied architecture at universities in Austria (TU Graz, TU Wien), France (École d’Architecture Paris La Villette) and Japan (Kyoto University).
After graduating in 2001, he got awarded with a scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Science and Education and spent several years in Japan studying at Kyoto University under Prof. Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama. There he worked for the Kyoto based branch of AMORPHE Takeyama & Associates and for SPINGLASS Architects in Fukuoka.
After his return to Austria in 2005 and working in his field of expertise for 3 years, he started his own architecture and design studio CERRIDAN Design, as well as IKANGAI Solutions.
Martin Treiber — Development
Martin is a computer scientist and the technical mastermind of IKANGAI Solutions. During his studies and after his graduation from Vienna University of Technology in 2005, he worked as a freelancer in the industry where he designed, implemented and maintained databases and Web based software systems.
From 2005 to 2008, he was working in the OSIRIS project, a project funded by the Austrian Forschungs Förderungs Gesellschaft in which he coordinated the activities of Wirtschaftauskunftei Wisur and during which he spent six months working in Nice. In addition to his management activities, he co-designed the OSIRIS software architecture and implemented several project prototypes.
Starting with 2009, he started to work intensively with mobile devices and has since then implemented all IKANGAI software projects.
He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at Distributed Systems Group at the Vienna University of Technology in which he investigates the coordination of adhoc workflows on mobile devices in crowdsourcing environments. He is the author of several scientific papers, supervises (Bachelor and Master) students, blogs about scientific topics on the IKANGAI blog and works in the European network of excellence project S-Cube.
Quoc Dung Vuong — Web
Quoc Dung is a freelance Frontend Designer, Web Developer and IKANGAI Solution’s webworker.
After discovering and becoming enthused with CSS during his time as a student, he has been working with web technologies ever since. Thank you Dave Shea and www.csszengarden.com!
In 2009 he started his own Web Design and Development Studio CreativeSyntax e.U., specializing in WordPress, MODx development, Frontend Design and Web Development.
At IKANGAI Solutions, he is responsible for everything web related, including several backend projects for some of IKANGAI Solution’s diverse Application portfolio.
Johannes Scherling — Text
Johannes is working as a lecturer at the English department of the University of Graz.
He studied English and Japanese at the University of Graz (Austria) and at Shukutoku University (Japan) and was a short-term researcher at Nanzan University (Japan). He has a PhD in English Linguistics and American Cultural Studies.
In his spare time, he is working as a freelance translator and interpreter between German, English, and Japanese.
At IKANGAI Solutions, he is responsible for proof reading and translations.
Paulo Wang — Motion Design & Animation
Paulo is a film student at the University of Vienna. He turned his passion for the moving image into his profession and has been working as a freelance motion designer and video editor for the past two years.
With a general obsession with everything animated, his focus lies on hard surface modeling, lighting, and animations in 2D and 3D.
He is currently working on his degree in Film Studies and on the expansion of his design and motion portfolio.
Pablo Lerma Martinez — Development (Intern)
Pablo is the newest incorporation to IKANGAI. He is a software engineer student at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and is currently an Erasmus student at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).
After his first contact with an iOS device, he knew he wanted to develop applications for mobile devices in general and Apple devices in particular. He has recently completed his bachelor thesis by developing an application for the iPhone and Mac OS X, for which he was awarded the highest grade.
He is responsible for developing Mac OS X applications and for support in mobile development.
