Christian Beer
Lead Developer at Christian Beer
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Beer is a Lead Developer and independent iOS/macOS engineer with 15 years of experience, specializing in Swift since 2015 and Objective-C since 2007. Based in Münster, Germany, he leads app and backend development at Narravero while maintaining a portfolio of self-published apps and client work that demonstrates end-to-end product delivery. He has strong expertise in embedded data synchronization—contributing database engineering improvements and custom conflict resolution to the Couchbase Lite iOS project—and routinely bridges frontend UX and backend data concerns. Comfortable in both small founding teams and large enterprise projects (including Deutsche Bank), he combines hands-on coding with technical leadership and consultancy. His background in information systems and long history of freelance work make him skilled at turning complex integration challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems at University of Münster
German, English
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Github Skills (14)
objective-c10
databases10
coredata10
database10
database-design9
nosql9
ios8
nsdate6
corevideo6
macos6
avfoundation6
iphone6
rest6
cocoa6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for iOS and MacOS apps.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:32 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on enhancing the Couchbase Lite integration with Core Data, adding features to import existing Core Data databases and manage potential conflicts. Their work included improvements to the internal data model and views within the Couchbase Lite database, optimizing data storage and retrieval. Furthermore, they implemented a custom conflict handling mechanism, allowing users to define how conflicting revisions should be managed during data synchronization and updates.
objective-cnosqldatabase-enginesyncnosql-database
chbeer/iVocabulary-Support
Sep 2013 - Oct 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes, 48 comments in 7 years 2 months
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