Christian Brabandt
Principal Platform Consultant
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Brabandt is a Principal Platform Consultant with 19 years' experience specializing in master data management, data quality, and application/data integration, currently shaping platform strategy and implementations at Ataccama. He blends hands-on architecture and implementation work with presales and requirements evaluation, helping organizations adopt MDM/DQ solutions and integrate them into existing DevOps, virtualization and containerization practices. A long-time Vim maintainer and active open-source contributor, he has enhanced core Vim and popular plugins like vim-airline and csv.vim—demonstrating deep tooling fluency that informs his pragmatic approach to developer workflows. Based in Quedlinburg, Germany, he combines enterprise consulting experience across IBM, RapidMiner and Information Builders with a curiosity for efficient operational designs and a parallel life as a hobby photographer.
19 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur (BA) Information Technology Information Technology, Diplom-Ingenieur (BA) Information Technology Information Technology at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Berufsakademie Stuttgart
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Github Skills (34)
text-editor10
vimscript10
plugin-development10
c1110
editor10
c1710
vim10
regular-expression10
customisation10
theme-development10
text-editing10
documentation10
highlight9
maintenance9
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbra/csv.vim
Apr 2010 - Nov 2022
A Filetype plugin for csv files
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Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:613 commits, 35 PRs, 182 pushes in 12 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the development and improvement of a Vim plugin for editing CSV files. They focused on enhancing the functionality of existing commands, especially the `:ArrangeCol` command, and added new features like support for various number formats in the `:SumCol` command, and text objects. They also made improvements to the user experience and syntax highlighting.
csv-filescsvfiletype-pluginfiletype
vim-airline/vim-airline
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 585 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to extending the functionality of vim-airline, a status/tabline plugin for Vim. They implemented support for a CSV filetype, added a function to toggle the display of the statusline, and integrated various features such as integration with the NrrwRgn plugin. Additionally, the user enhanced the word count extension and added features related to file encryption and the handling of terminal mode.
vimlighttablinestatuslinevim-plugin
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