Christian Hollinger is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building data platforms, high-performance Go services, and distributed systems across startups and large enterprises. He recently led the creation of ngrok’s Data Platform from the ground up while also contributing to product features and tackling complex networking challenges. Prior roles at Shopify and Deloitte sharpened his skills in stream processing (Scala), consulting across diverse systems, and bridging product, infrastructure, and data engineering. He splits time evenly between product development, data engineering, and operations, and deliberately avoids being pigeonholed as a pure “Data Engineer.” A home-lab, functional programming, and open-source enthusiast, he brings practical curiosity and systems-level thinking to every project. Based in Canton, Georgia, he combines production-grade engineering with a hacker’s taste for elegant, low-level solutions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Associate’s Degree Apprenticeship Industrial Management Assistant (Industriekaufmann), Associate’s Degree Apprenticeship Industrial Management Assistant (Industriekaufmann) at GEA Air Treatment GmbH
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