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Viktor Lamp — VFP Fossil Rescue

Modern stacks.
Ancient systems.
One developer.

I build modern fullstack applications — and keep systems alive that everyone else wrote off. Visual FoxPro included.

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Viktor Lamp
02About

Two worlds, one toolbox.

In application development since 2012. Today Head of Development — and one of the few people who still genuinely read VFP code.

My day job is modern software: low-code platforms, web frontends, databases, deployments. What sets me apart is the second toolbox — systems from the 90s and 2000s that must keep running because a business depends on them.

I rescue, maintain and modernise them. Step by step, no big-bang migration, no downtime.

AI-assisted development is by now as much a part of the daily routine as the legacy systems are: prompt engineering, agentic workflows, multi-step loop architectures — mostly with Claude Code, alongside some Copilot and smaller models.

  1. 2012
    Apprenticeship, software development (VFP)
    Schöttner-EDV, Kempten

    Start of the apprenticeship — first contact with Visual FoxPro.

  2. 2015
    Qualified software developer
    Schöttner-EDV, Kempten

    Maintained existing VFP projects, started working with Servoy.

  3. 2015–2021
    VFP, C#, Python, Servoy
    Schöttner-EDV → HV-Office GmbH

    VFP-to-Servoy modernisations; company rebranded to HV-Office GmbH.

  4. since 2021
    Head of Development
    HV-Office GmbH

    DevOps, refactoring, AI, new JS frameworks, R&D.

03Skills

What is actually in production.

Categories instead of percentage bars — everything listed here has shipped.

Low-Code / Business Apps

Servoy

A Java-based low-code platform for business and database applications — not widely known, but my core platform since 2015.

Web

JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactAngularAstro

Astro runs this page, too.

DevOps / Tooling

JiraBitbucketGitHubGitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerVercel

Tickets, pipelines, pull requests — the everyday behind the operation.

Systems & Databases

Linux administrationWindows administrationPostgreSQLMS SQL ServerSupabase

PostgreSQL day to day with Servoy, MS SQL wherever the client requires it.

AI

Claude CodePrompt EngineeringAgentic DevelopmentLoop ArchitectureGitHub CopilotSmaller Models

Yes, those are buzzwords. I still use them daily.

Legacy / Fossil Rescue

Visual FoxPro 5–9Clarion

In amber, not in concrete.

04Projects

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05Fossil Rescue

Not a fossil. Just encased.

Visual FoxPro was discontinued in 2015. Some of the applications I've maintained since 2012 are still running regardless.

Rescue audit

Going through code, data and interfaces — what's actually in there usually only shows up once you look closely.

Maintenance & fixes

Fix defects, adapt reports, survive Windows updates — the ordinary upkeep of a system that officially shouldn't exist anymore.

Modernisation

Gradual replacement: new interfaces, existing data — no big bang, including migration paths to Servoy.

Get in touchI don't actively offer this as a service — but I've worked with VFP (version 5–9) since 2012. If you can't find anyone else: just get in touch.
VFP 5–9DBF / CDXFoxPro reports
06Blog

Notes from two time zones.

Two articles in progress — more to follow.

12 Mar 20266 min readVFP
Why VFP systems are still running in 2026

Visual FoxPro was retired in 2007. Plenty of businesses still run production code on it — and there are solid reasons why.

28 Jan 20269 min readServoy
Low-code in Git

How to serialise a Servoy solution so that code review becomes bearable again — instead of wading through binary diffs.

Coming soon