Christian Kadner
Software Developer at IBM
California, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Kadner is a seasoned software developer with 11 years of professional experience at IBM, specializing in Java development and Eclipse tooling while based in California. He combines backend and automation expertise with hands-on work in distributed and ML-focused systems—contributions include integrating adversarial robustness tooling into IBM's Fabric for Deep Learning and enabling Spark kernels in Jupyter Enterprise Gateway. Christian has also improved release automation and build hygiene for Apache projects and maintained discoverability for IBM's open-source landscape, showing attention to both developer experience and community health. Trained in Media Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden, he brings a blend of long-term enterprise stability and practical open-source impact, often solving gaps between tooling, documentation, and reproducible demos.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master (German: Diplom), Media Computer Science (German: Medieninformatik), Master (German: Diplom), Media Computer Science (German: Medieninformatik) at Technische Universität Dresden
English, German, French
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Github Skills (40)
spark10
python10
jupyter10
open-source10
machine-learning10
git-repository10
ipython10
cicd10
scala10
kernel10
keras10
jupyter-kernels10
deeplearning-ai10
repo-management10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bahir
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
Mirror of Apache Bahir
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 147 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian focused on improving the build and release process for the project. They configured Maven builds to fail on Checkstyle violations and included test sources in the style checks. They also addressed issues with MQTT Python code, added tests, and modified the build script to ensure proper execution of Python examples. Additionally, they updated the import order checker and implemented a mechanism to prompt for the PGP passphrase when it was not exported.
connectorbahirapachedatastreamjava
IBM/ibm.github.io
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
IBM Open Source at GitHub
Role in this project:Community Manager / Developer Advocate
Community Manager / Developer AdvocateContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on maintaining and updating a list of IBM-related organizations and repositories within the `ibm/ibm.github.io` repository. They updated outdated repository references, corrected organizational names, and ensured the accuracy of links. These changes involved modifying a configuration file (`orgs.js`), reflecting organizational changes, and correcting data entries to align with the current state of IBM's open-source initiatives. This work supports the discoverability and accuracy of the IBM open source community.
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