Christian Blume
Senior Lead Engineer at DDN Storage
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolChristian Blume is a Senior Lead Engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance, low-latency systems across storage, DSP, and machine learning domains. He combines a PhD in geoscience and a Master’s in physics with deep expertise in C++, Python, Rust and Linux to deliver scalable storage, virtualisation and real-time multimedia solutions—from erasure coding on GPUs to animated digital humans. Christian has led teams and mentored engineers while contributing patented techniques, peer-reviewed papers, and widely used open-source libraries that bridge research and production. Currently at DDN Storage after architecting Nyriad’s UltraIO converged storage and pioneering a highly-available distributed microservices control plane, he excels at turning complex mathematical models into production software. Notably, his background in geoscience research informs a data-driven, experimental approach to systems design that favors measurable performance gains and reproducibility.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Physics, Study Abroad, Physics at Universitat de ValènciaDoctorate, Geoscience, Doctorate, Geoscience at Freie Universität BerlinMaster's, Physics, Master's, Physics at Technical University MunichIntermediate Diploma, Physics, Intermediate Diploma, Physics at The University of Bonn
English, German, Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (74)
cpp10
concurrency10
shiny10
libsvm10
credentials10
prebuild10
trust10
lists10
c-library10
async9
identity9
messaging9
authentication9
end-to-end-encryption9
security9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bloomen/gem
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
A collection of simple algorithms and data structures for C++
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
cppdatastructuresc-plus-plusalgorithms-and-data-structuresdata-structures
bloomen/featureimpact
Jun 2013 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 55 commits, 36 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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