Summary
Christian Paling is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience focused on backend systems using Ruby (Rails), JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin) and Go, currently building at XEMPUS while also taking on freelance projects. He has a track record of shipping production services on AWS and has applied both compiled and dynamic language toolchains across startups and product teams, notably at Streetspotr and as a long-term freelancer. Christian pairs practical engineering—Elasticsearch, Sidekiq, Airbrake, and testing with Selenium/jUnit—with a strong academic foundation (B.Eng and M.Sc. in Software Engineering). He writes about development and maintains public projects on GitHub, signaling a habit of documenting and sharing technical learnings. Comfortable across backend and front-end concerns, he brings a pragmatic polyglot approach that helps teams choose the right tool for the problem.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Veitshöchheim
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS)
Master of Science, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Science - Software Engineering at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
German, English, French, Japanese