Christian Köstlin
Senior Software Developer, Firmware & Embedded Engineering Expert at ESR Labs GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Köstlin is a senior software developer and firmware/embedded engineering expert with 16+ years building automotive-grade systems, co-founding ESRLabs and helping scale it into a market-leading connected-car technology firm acquired by Accenture. He combines deep C++ and Java expertise with hands-on experience across teams from solo contributors to 40-person groups, delivering everything from rapid prototypes to production systems. Based in Munich, he blends entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic engineering—continuing to apply startup-style ownership inside a global consultancy. An active tinkerer, he also contributes to open-source tooling (notably adding Emacs package recipes to the popular el-get repo), reflecting a preference for optimizing existing technologies into useful solutions.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Computer Science, Diplom Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Abitur, Abitur at Hohenzollern-Gymnasium Sigmaringen
English
Github Skills (6)
package-management10
emacs-lisp10
github9
git9
configuration-management8
scripting7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dimitri/el-get
Nov 2010 - Oct 2015
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 5 years
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the `el-get` repository by adding recipes for various Emacs packages. These recipes define how `el-get` manages and installs external Emacs Lisp packages. The contributions cover diverse packages ranging from `point-stack` and `ant` to `lusty-explorer` and `jenkins`. The user also updated and modified existing recipes.
elispspacemacsmagitemacsbits
gizmomogwai/progressbar4d
May 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years 4 months
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