Chris Mader
Co-Founder And Software Architect at nxt Engineering GmbH
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolChris Mader is a Co-Founder and Software Architect based in the Zürich metro area with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems. He combines hands-on engineering and DevOps expertise—shipping production-grade Terraform provider resources and improving CI/CD and Docker build pipelines—while leading architecture and product decisions at nxt Engineering. A pragmatic systems thinker, he has significant open-source contributions to prominent projects like gopacket (network packet processing) and the Azure Terraform provider, demonstrating deep networking and cloud integration knowledge. Chris blends commercial experience across managed cloud services and enterprise software with academic grounding from HSR and a master's from ZHAW, and he once jokingly called himself a “serious software architect” and proceeded to make it true.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
general qualification for university entrance, general qualification for university entrance at Bildungszentrum Zürichsee, HorgenBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at HSR Hochschule für Technik RapperswilMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at ZHAW School of Management and Law
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github-ci10
docker10
gopacket10
scripting10
packet10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
networking10
cicd10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
script10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/netbox-docker
Apr 2017 - Dec 2022
🐳 Docker Image of NetBox
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 320 reviews, 550 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the build process and CI/CD pipeline for the NetBox Docker project. Their contributions included modifications to build scripts (`build.sh`, `build-latest.sh`, `build-branches.sh`, `build-all.sh`) to incorporate features like using GitHub Actions for builds, caching, and building images for different branches, and managing the Docker registry. They also enhanced the Docker image creation process by adding more labels and options to the build script.
pythondocker-imagenetboxdockerdocker-compose
google/gopacket
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Provides packet processing capabilities for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the packet processing capabilities of the `gopacket` library. They implemented IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option serialization, including the handling of Jumbo Payload. Further work involved the addition of MLDv1 and MLDv2 (Multicast Listener Discovery) support, as well as the recognition of DHCPv6 options. They fixed bugs and optimized the code, including correcting the length of DHCPv6Option when FixLengths is set to true.
golangwiresharkdpdkpacket-processingpacket
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