Christian Gessner
Head Of Research & Innovation, Co-Founder Co-Owner
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Gessner is a co-founder and Head of Research & Innovation at COOLORANGE, specializing in automating and integrating Autodesk CAD, PDM, and PLM systems with enterprise landscapes. With over 25 years of full-stack software development experience and a background on Autodesk’s data management engineering team, he blends deep product-data expertise with Microsoft development technologies. He has led technical strategy and evangelism across multiple ventures since 2009, turning complex CAD/PLM requirements into reliable, customizable automation solutions. Based in the Greater Munich area, Christian pairs hands-on engineering with commercial sensibility from his business informatics training. Colleagues know him for bridging research-grade approaches with pragmatic deployments that reduce manual data handling across design and lifecycle workflows.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Business informatics (HWK), Business informatics (HWK) at Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern
Github Skills (2)
vault7
erp4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
coolOrangeLabs/powerload-utilities
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Set of utilities supplementing the bcpToolkit to load data into Vault
Contributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
vault
coolOrangeLabs/powerflc-samples
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Sample workflows for coolOrange powerPLM
Contributions:37 commits, 22 pushes in 1 year 11 months
workflowsworkflow
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