Christian Galsterer
Principal Consultant People Lead at codecentric AG
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Galsterer is a Principal Consultant and People Lead based in Munich with 12 years of experience driving cloud-native, event-driven digital transformations across international teams. He combines hands-on architecture and engineering—particularly in Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, and event-driven microservices—with domain-driven design and evolutionary architecture to turn business outcomes into reliable products. As a mentor and chapter lead he blends people management, SRE and FinOps practices to create engineering guardrails and measurable value streams. A pragmatic agile evangelist who believes "you build it, you own it, you run it," he also contributes to prominent open-source projects like Jenkins plugins, adding practical CI/CD improvements and unit-tested DSLs. Colleagues rely on him for strategic vision and the willingness to jump into code and proof-of-concepts when complexity demands it.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
FAU Erlangen-NürnbergTechnische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
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Github Skills (16)
e-mail10
unit-testing10
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
sendmail10
groovy10
java10
send-email10
jenkins-plugin10
maven8
testing7
git6
configurations6
pullrequest6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin
May 2014 - Jun 2015
A Groovy DSL for Jenkins Jobs - Sweeeeet!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the `job-dsl-plugin` repository by adding and modifying Groovy DSL support for various Jenkins plugins, specifically the StashNotifier, Log File Size Checker, and Maven Deployment Linker plugins. Their work involved creating new DSL contexts and modifying existing ones to provide a user-friendly interface for configuring these plugins within Jenkins jobs. They also added unit tests to ensure the correctness of the new DSL configurations.
jenkinsgroovyjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugindsl
jenkinsci/email-ext-plugin
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Jenkins Email Extension Plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian focused on enhancing the Jenkins Email Extension plugin. Their primary contribution involved implementing a feature to allow emails to be sent to committers of upstream builds that triggered the current build. They addressed review comments, fixing logging and spacing issues. The user also made I18N changes for display names within the plugin and implemented handling for connection errors.
jenkinsplugin-extensionjenkins-builderjenkins-pluginemail
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