Christian Browet
Principal API Consultant at Axway
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolChristian Browet is a Principal API Consultant based in Brussels with 18 years of experience designing and implementing integration solutions across finance and enterprise environments. He currently helps partners deploy Axway AMPLIFY API platforms both on-prem and in the cloud, bringing deep SOA and middleware expertise from prior roles at BNP Paribas Fortis, ING and Capgemini. A longtime Android platform contributor, he has made notable open-source contributions to projects like Kodi and Jellyfin—improving media playback, audio passthrough and global search—reflecting hands-on skills in C++/JNI and mobile development. Christian combines systems-thinking with pragmatic engineering, having moved from mainframe development and configuration management to modern API architecture. Colleagues know him for reliably untangling complex integration challenges and for quietly improving developer and device configuration flows in community projects.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Haute Ecole de Bruxelles
French, English, Dutch
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kotlin10
qt10
python10
configuration-management10
java10
javas10
jna10
android10
android-tv10
home-assistant10
c-language9
bluetooth-le9
yaml9
btle9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Oct 2011 - Oct 2018
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:781 commits, 348 PRs, 78 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing features related to the Android operating system and Kodi's integration with it. Their work included addressing issues with the user interface, particularly related to media keys and the handling of volume changes. Additionally, the user made contributions to improve the app's compatibility with new features and APIs, and enhanced the codebase by applying various code adjustments.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
custom-components/ble_monitor
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
BLE monitor for passive BLE sensors
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 10 days
Contributions summary:Christian focused on refactoring and enhancing the configuration flow within the BLE monitor project. Their work involved adjusting code to align with changes, disabling option flows for YAML configurations, and implementing a service to delete dangling devices, improving the overall management of devices. They also addressed issues related to temperature unit conversions and fixed the allowance of only a single instance of the monitor. These changes directly impacted the configuration management and the interaction with Home Assistant.
monitoryeelightmitemp-btqingpingsensors
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