Christian-manuel Butzke
Principal Engineer & Senior Consultant at Fruwe
Asaka, Japan
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Top SchoolChristian-manuel Butzke is a Principal Engineer and senior consultant with over 14 years of professional experience and a 20+-year hands-on background across full-stack, SRE, mobile, games, and even hardware. He currently leads architecture and SDK design for TechDoctor’s healthcare data platform while running Fruwe, where he’s repeatedly launched scalable, cost-optimized healthcare and research systems. Known for blending management and deep engineering, he has driven reliability-first transformations—introducing platformization, SLAs, observability and incident prevention at companies like Unstoppable Domains. His portfolio includes work for major Japanese and global firms (Nintendo, Panasonic, Rakuten, NTT) and spans backend auth, data pipelines, and consumer-facing apps. A pragmatic optimizer, he once cut infrastructure costs by 60% through containerization and tuning, and he pairs that technical rigor with cross-cultural experience from long-term work and study in Japan. Outside software he pursued Kaiseki culinary training, reflecting a disciplined, craft-oriented approach to complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Kaiseki Cuisine Master Class, Tsuji Culinary Institute, Kaiseki Cuisine Master Class, Tsuji Culinary Institute at Ecole Tsuji TokyoBachelor's degree, Natural Sciences, Bachelor's degree, Natural Sciences at The Open University of JapanJapanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
Github Skills (200)
saml10
ruby10
sidekiq10
redis10
homebrew10
turbolinks10
liveness-probe9
csv-import9
csv-parsing9
keycloak9
csv-export9
debugging9
background-processing9
libphonenumber9
nodejs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fruwe/csv_step_importer
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Import your CSV files in multiple steps
Contributions:96 commits, 17 PRs, 69 pushes in 10 months
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fruwe/mac-ansible
Aug 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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