Christian Schmitz
Owner at Christian Schmitz Software GmbH
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Schmitz is the founder and owner of Monkeybread Software (Christian Schmitz Software GmbH), leading the company since 2000 and specializing in high-quality developer plugins and tooling. A C++ specialist with a professional development career starting in April 2000, he focuses on plugins for FileMaker and Xojo and combines product leadership with deep hands-on engineering. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as curl, where he’s helped fix protocol bugs, memory leaks, and added macOS/iOS improvements—showing attention to stability and cross-platform interoperability. Based in the Cologne–Bonn region, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with a formal BSc in Computer Science from Universität Koblenz-Landau. Christian is known for turning niche developer needs into polished commercial solutions, bridging long-term product stewardship with active low-level code contributions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Informatik, Bachelor of Science, Informatik at Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
English, French
Github Skills (8)
c1710
c1110
curl10
libcurl10
ssh10
http9
ftp8
openssl7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
curl/curl
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 5 commits, 42 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to improving the cURL library, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements related to various protocols and features. Their work included fixing errors in SSH handling, correcting issues in NTLM authentication, and resolving typos. They also added support for native AppleIDN for macOS/iOS and improved the overall stability and efficiency of the library by addressing warnings and fixing memory leaks.
rtmppop3dictscptelnet
MonkeybreadSoftware/libarchive
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
Multi-format archive and compression library
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
multi-formatdeflatebzip27zipcompression
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