Christian Lerke
Director Of Engineering at Toptal
Spain
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Top SchoolChristian Lerke is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience blending startup grit and enterprise discipline, currently scaling Toptal’s MarTech organisation and turning prototypes into production-grade platforms. He co-founded the UK’s first 1-hour grocery delivery marketplace, raising €2M and building the logistics, engineering and remote teams that enabled rapid on-demand fulfilment. Known for building high-performing, cross-functional teams, he creates clear career development frameworks and aligns engineering with product and business goals to improve retention and delivery. Technically fluent across full-stack web development and systems engineering, he has driven architectural migrations, SEO tooling and AI knowledge-sharing initiatives to boost productivity. Based in Spain with an MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Christian combines hands-on product engineering with a knack for translating operational complexity into scalable, resilient systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels Physics Mathematics, A-Levels Physics Mathematics at Trinity School, Tenerife, SpainBSc (Hons) Robotics Robotics, BSc (Hons) Robotics Robotics at University of the West of EnglandMSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Warwick“Mittlere Reife” equivalent to GCSE, “Mittlere Reife” equivalent to GCSE at Ludwig Thoma Gymnasium
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
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ruby9
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activerecord8
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ruby-on-rails8
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Github contributions (5)
christianlerke/opsworks-cookbooks
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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christianlerke/fletcher
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:24 pushes in 4 days
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