Christian Franke
Area Manager Production Systems at dpa-IT Services GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Franke is an experienced software leader with 16 years in development and product management, currently co-managing production systems at dpa-IT in Hamburg. He blends a hands-on developer background—evidenced by contributions to the Quagga routing project fixing protocol bugs and memory leaks—with a focus on enabling agile, self-organizing teams and sustainable product delivery. His remit spans line management, recruiting, process design, and setting technical strategy for planning and editorial systems, including driving new development efforts. Known for improving cross-team transparency and knowledge sharing, he combines pragmatic engineering with people-centered leadership to help IT teams deliver resilient services. Unexpectedly, his roots in low-level back-end/network work inform a practical emphasis on robustness and performance in higher-level product and process decisions.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Without Degree, Without Degree at Mannheim UniversityIT specialist (software development) / Fachinformatiker (Anwendungsentwicklung), IT specialist (software development) / Fachinformatiker (Anwendungsentwicklung) at www.handy-games.com GmbH / Klara Oppenheimer Schule Würzburg
English, German
Github Skills (6)
c1710
bgp10
memory-management10
isis10
c1110
ospf9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Quagga/quagga
Nov 2012 - Oct 2016
Quagga Tracking repository - Master is at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:171 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the Quagga routing software project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to network protocols. Their work included addressing memory leaks in the BGP daemon, enhancing the OSPF and IS-IS protocols through fixes in routing tag implementations, and improving code robustness through changes to route and PDU handling. Several commits focused on enhancing the stability and performance of specific features such as route management.
cgitquagga
cfra/lenkeng
May 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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