Chris Borckholder
Principal Engineer at Bitpanda
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Borckholder is a Principal Engineer based in Vienna with 13 years of experience building and operating high-performance, secure cloud and trading systems. He has driven end-to-end delivery at Bitpanda—from designing Java backends and transaction settlement logic to bootstrapping CI/CD and running critical AWS infrastructure like ECS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and S3. As a former technical lead for Bitpanda Pro he improved spot trading capabilities and contributed open-source integration work for exchange APIs including Bitpanda Pro and additional currency pairs. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding, infrastructure ownership and team leadership, he focuses on clean, reliable solutions and internal checks that prevent financial loss. He combines academic roots in Wirtschaftsinformatik with practical expertise in production-grade, secure fintech platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik at University of ViennaInformatik, Informatik at TU Kaiserslautern
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
exchange-online10
api-design10
financial-data10
restful-api10
exchange-server10
finance10
integrations10
java10
exchange10
javas10
data-processing10
rest-api10
testing9
jackson9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GENERALBYTESCOM/batm_public
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
BATM Public Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development and implementation of a Bitpanda Pro exchange integration. This involved modeling API components, implementing rate source and exchange interfaces, and developing the necessary data transfer objects (DTOs). Furthermore, the user added the support for BTC/GBP and DOGE/EUR pairs including the amount precision, and implemented unit tests to validate the functionality of the implemented methods.
public-repository
pyranja/dotfiles
Jan 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:85 pushes, 3 branches, 3 comments in 3 years 5 months
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