Summary
Christian Ledgard is a software engineer with eight years of experience, currently building production systems at Tesla after progressing from QA intern to software engineer. He blends practical QA discipline with hands-on development skills, having implemented contract-based testing at Bynder and shipped serverless, internationalized platforms for conference and research projects. Comfortable in both Java and Python ecosystems, he also brings observability-focused testing experience using PactFlow, Jenkins and Grafana to catch defects early and improve developer experience. Based in Amsterdam, he excels at cross-team collaboration and documentation, and has taught and automated grading for large undergraduate CS courses—evidence of his ability to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences. Christian is driven by building software that impacts people, pairing a troubleshooting mindset with a constant appetite for learning and process improvement.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Bachelor's degree, Ciencia de la computación, Bachelor's degree, Ciencia de la computación at UTEC - Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología
Spanish, English