Chris Hofstädtler
Founder at Deduktiva
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarChris Hofstädtler is a Vienna-based founder and seasoned software engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience building reliable system-level and backend software. He combines entrepreneurial grit—running two ventures since 2010—with deep open-source practice as a Debian developer and contributor to high-profile projects like util-linux, Puppet and FreeRDP. His work spans low-level utilities, server automation, and cross-platform client features, showing fluency from command-line tooling to UI and authentication flows. Pragmatic and curious, he focuses on fixing hard compatibility and bug-driven problems that others avoid, often improving portability and robustness across architectures. Clients and collaborators benefit from his blend of operations-minded engineering and a tendency to ask the tough technical questions that lead to lasting fixes.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
puppeteer10
develop10
puppet10
debian10
linux10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
rack10
cocoa9
rdp9
macos9
system-administration8
remote-desktop8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
util-linux/util-linux
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the util-linux project by addressing bug fixes and implementing small improvements to existing command-line utilities. This involved modifying code related to hexdump, cfdisk, blockdev, script, setterm, and fallocate, showing a good understanding of the project's utilities. They also added defines for various architectures and made a code style change. These changes involved correcting bugs, improving functionality, and updating the codebase.
FreeRDP/FreeRDP
Feb 2013 - Feb 2014
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Mac client of the FreeRDP project, implementing and refactoring features related to the user interface and authentication. Their work included the creation of a password dialog for user authentication, integration of CoreGraphics for improved rendering, and fixing issues related to pointer functions. They also addressed bugs and added functionality for the dynamic virtual echo channel.
freerdpremote-desktopsdlrdpandroid
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