Christian Hofer
Lead Software Engineer Search at Squirro
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolChristian Hofer is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in search and backend systems with 10 years of professional experience and a decade-long track record of shipping production software. Currently heading search engineering at Squirro, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, having architected microservice-driven semantic search platforms and production ML pipelines. His background spans embedded and cloud-integrated control systems, semantic NLP products, and customer-facing roles that bridge workshops, training and deployment. Christian is fluent across Java, Python, Spring Boot, Docker and Elasticsearch, and has led teams through releases, monitoring (ELK) and OpenShift deployments. An outdoor enthusiast who brings the same focus from mountain biking and climbing to complex system design, he has a rare mix of embedded control, ML/NLP and search expertise.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Qualification for University Entrance, Electronics and Information Technology, General Qualification for University Entrance, Electronics and Information Technology at HTL PinkafeldBachelor of Science in Engineering, Mobile Computing, Honours Degree, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mobile Computing, Honours Degree at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg CampusEntrepreneurship and IT Innovations, Entrepreneurship and IT Innovations at European Innovation Academy
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (22)
parser10
splits10
pdf10
extraction10
pdf-files10
data-extraction10
pdfminer9
text-extraction9
pdf-parser9
python8
oauth6
oauth2-client6
autocomplete2
redis2
redis-client1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ChrizH/pdfstructure
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
`pdfstructure` detects, splits and organizes the documents text content into its natural structure as envisioned by the author.
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 months
splitspdfnatural
ChrizH/3DTracking_Qt5
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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