Kauss, born 1971, is responsible for all product architectures and engineering processes.

He founded Netline Internet Service in 1996. From 2002 to 2004, he was technical project leader of the SUSE Linux Openexchange Server.

Prior to founding Netline, Kauss was a free-lance programmer specializing in Assembler, Clipper and C++. He holds an apprenticeship degree in industrial mechanics.