Christian Franzen
Solution Architect at INFORM GmbH - Optimization Software
Roetgen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Franzen is a Solution Architect with a decade of experience designing and delivering distributed, embedded, and parallel systems with a strong grounding in operations research and optimization methods. He holds dual Diplom degrees in Computer Engineering and Economics from RWTH Aachen and is pursuing a PhD in Operations Research, blending rigorous academic modeling with production-grade software engineering. Christian has progressed from hands-on software developer roles to senior consulting and expert IT engineering positions, and now architects optimization software at INFORM GmbH. His background spans industrial research internships and long-term product development, giving him deep exposure to both algorithmic design and real-world deployment constraints. Known for translating complex optimization problems into scalable systems, he brings a rare combination of theoretical depth and practical delivery. Based in Roetgen, Germany, he quietly leverages embedded and parallel computing techniques to squeeze performance from constrained environments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Operations Research, Doktor (Ph.D.), Operations Research at RWTH Aachen UniversityDiplom, Wirtschaft, Diplom, Wirtschaft at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
German, English
Github Skills (62)
apache-commons10
commons10
feature-flags10
java10
lang10
apache9
continuous-integration9
feature-toggle9
switch9
gocd9
apache-commons-lang9
flags9
alibabacloud9
versioning8
nvm8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Inform-Software/jamps
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
Java API for Mathematical Programming Solvers
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 2 months
apisolversmathematicaljava-apijava
cfranzen/spring-webflux-mvc-benchmark
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Performance benchmark comparing Spring Webflux with Spring Mvc
Contributions:48 PRs, 78 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 6 months
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