Christian Koch
Principal Software Engineer at Gearflow
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Koch is a Principal Software Engineer based in Chicago with over a decade of experience building resilient, high-performance platforms and leading engineering teams through large-scale replatforms. He specializes in Elixir, Ruby on Rails, and Phoenix, and has driven multimillion-dollar cost savings by migrating legacy systems and streamlining operations while reducing support headcount by 75%. A pragmatic architect and people leader, he optimizes CI/CD and developer experience and has implemented production messaging and telephony integrations that improve user engagement. Deeply curious about AI-assisted engineering, he applies LLM tools to boost productivity and code quality while mentoring others in the Elixir community.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Program Economics, Master's Program Economics at University of Illinois ChicagoOberlin CollegeBA Economics, BA Economics at University of New Orleans
Korean, Spanish, ruby, elixir
Github Skills (7)
authentication4
google3
google-cloud-platform3
elixir3
gcp3
oauth2
google-cloud2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ckochx/rails_conf
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
ckochx/cat_feeder_ex
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
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