Christian Paul
Full Stack Developer (Matrix Web)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Paul is a Full Stack Developer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building web and Matrix protocol integrations, currently focusing on Matrix web work. He blends front-end React skills and Node.js back-end development with a strong open-source footprint—contributing to prominent projects like matrix-appservice-discord, matrix-js-sdk and the console renderer MapSCII. Christian has a track record of modernizing legacy codebases (decaffeinating to modern JS, migrating to ESLint/TypeScript), improving maintainability, and adding nuanced protocol features such as functional member handling for chat rooms. Comfortable across Linux environments and security-minded, he pairs practical engineering with a habit of improving developer ergonomics and cross-project code quality.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Vancouver Island UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics at EUFH
English, German
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
matrix10
typescript10
eslint10
console-application10
sdk10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
refactoring10
irc10
merge-conflicts10
discord-js9
php-java-bridge9
discord9
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
rastapasta/mapscii
Nov 2017 - May 2022
🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 109 commits, 80 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily worked on refactoring and modernizing the codebase, decaffeinating CoffeeScript files to JavaScript. They updated core components like `LabelBuffer`, `config`, `utils`, `Mapscii`, `Styler`, `BrailleBuffer`, `TileSource`, `Renderer`, `Canvas`, and `Tile`, bringing them up to current JavaScript standards. Additionally, the user enhanced the usability of the application by addressing display issues and improving the overall project structure and dependencies.
console-applicationtelnetasciiascii-artopenstreetmap
matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 162 reviews, 172 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on improving the backend functionality of the IRC bridge. They implemented features to handle nick name changes, including checks for existing names, and added tests to ensure this functionality. The user also made code improvements by replacing deprecated functions with newer versions and improved existing features.
node-jsirc-bridgejavascriptbridgenodejs
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