Christian Kaisermann
Principal Engineer at Spoke
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Kaisermann is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building user-focused, maintainable front-end architectures and improving developer workflows. He specializes in scaling front-end systems, accessibility, and developer experience, combining pragmatic engineering with strong standards and automation advocacy. A prolific open-source contributor, he has improved the Svelte compiler and maintained svelte-i18n, bringing deep knowledge of CSS transformations, localization, and routing edge cases (notably fixes to page.js for file-protocol/hashbang scenarios). At Spoke he progressed from Senior to Principal, driving product excellence through collaboration, coding standards, and developer tooling. He also co-hosted a weekly podcast, reflecting an interest in community-building and clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (21)
url-routing10
javascript10
jes10
css10
internationalization10
user-interface10
templater10
template-engine10
ui-design10
localization10
compiler-compiler10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
jtest10
compiler10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kaisermann/svelte-i18n
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Internationalization library for Svelte
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Front-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:22 reviews, 342 commits, 82 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on enhancing the internationalization capabilities of the Svelte-i18n library. Their contributions involved sveltifying the code, adding tests, and integrating deep merge functionality for extensible locale dictionaries. They also worked on adding support for features like interpolation and pluralization, improving the library's usability for localized content. The changes involved modifications to the library's core files, including `svelte-i18n.ts`, and the creation or modification of tests.
sveltei18ninternationalizationdictionary
vtex-apps/store-theme
Dec 2019 - May 2020
VTEX Store Theme
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 27 commits, 18 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on front-end development within the VTEX Store Theme repository. Their contributions involved refactoring the header to utilize native blocks and making stylistic improvements, including adding transitions and adjusting padding. The commits also included changes to the search bar and product summary components. Furthermore, the user added code to handle reduced motion preferences.
srv-store-frameworkvtexxp-developerstore-framework
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