Christiaan Rakowski

Chairperson Works Council at XXImo | Leads the way in mobility

Utrecht, Netherlands
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Christiaan Rakowski is a solutions-focused software architect and hands-on developer with 13 years of experience, currently shaping mobility platform architecture and serving as Chairperson of the Works Council at XXImo. He prefers C#/.NET for building desktop and web applications (WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET) but maintains broad fluency across Linux and Windows servers, mobile platforms, Node.js and Ruby on Rails, and even embedded C/C++ and AVR assembly. As a former lead developer across agencies and startups, he has guided projects end-to-end from concept to production, including Android and cross-platform mobile efforts. He contributes to open-source .NET ecosystem projects, improving maintainability and modern test targets, showing attention to both code quality and build pipelines. Based in Utrecht, he combines pragmatic engineering with governance experience, bringing technical depth plus stakeholder leadership to product and platform decisions. Colleagues value his curiosity-driven approach and preference for elegant, maintainable solutions rooted in C#/.NET craftsmanship.
code13 years of coding experience
job11 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor of Information and Communication Technology (BIT) Software Engineering (Technische Informatica), Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (BIT) Software Engineering (Technische Informatica) at Avans University of Applied Sciences
bookHAVO Natuur en Gezondheid met Economie 1, HAVO Natuur en Gezondheid met Economie 1 at 't Atrium
bookInternational Game Architecture & Design, International Game Architecture & Design at Breda University of Applied Sciences
languagesDutch, English, c#
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Github Skills (22)

unit-testing10
netframework10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
encrypt9
web-token9
jwe9
jsonwebtoken9
jwt9
netcore8
security7
encryption7
hide6
http-response6
omnisharp6

Programming languages (12)

PowerShellC#TypeScriptDockerfileC++CSSCJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

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dvsekhvalnov/jose-jwt

Nov 2020 - Apr 2022

Ultimate Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE), JSON Web Token (JWT) and Json Web Keys (JWK) Implementation for .NET and .NET Core
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 30 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Christiaan primarily focused on code improvements within the project, enhancing the codebase's maintainability by replacing `static readonly` with `const`. They also contributed to project build configurations by adding the `.net461` target framework for unit tests. Further modifications involved updating project files, specifically the `csproj` for unit tests, to incorporate `net50` and correcting minor testing assertions.
signingsignatureweb-tokenjwkjson-web-token
csrakowski/FeedManager

May 2017 - Feb 2025

A simple RSS feed manager/aggregator, similar to Feedly. This project is, at this time, only ment to be used to play around with the Microsoft Orleans framework and the Actor Pattern. It is not ment to be used, but who knows how things work out :-)
Contributions:7 PRs, 77 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 10 months
feed-managerrssactor-patternorleans-frameworksimilar
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Christiaan Rakowski - Chairperson Works Council at XXImo | Leads the way in mobility