Christian Straubhaar-jones
Software Engineering Manager at The Carlyle Group
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Straubhaar-jones is a Software Engineering Manager with a decade of full-stack experience building accessible, user-focused web applications and leading cross-functional teams. He combines academic rigor from his PhD background in German studies with hands-on expertise in React, Node, Typescript, and serverless AWS architectures to modernize legacy systems and deliver performant UIs. Christian has led offshore teams, redesigned complex ordering and GIS applications, and driven measurable performance gains—halving initial page load times on a major geospatial app. He mentors engineers across front- and back-end disciplines, runs internal training programs, and often takes on product and Scrum Master responsibilities to move projects forward. Passionate about diversity and healthy team dynamics, he brings a scholar’s attention to inclusive design and long-term system robustness.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) German Studies at Duke UniversityFull-stack Web Development, Full-stack Web Development at Hack ReactorDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) German Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, German
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
certification10
codebase10
math10
programming-tools10
nodejs10
react10
foundation5
django5
rails4
api4
python4
ruby-on-rails4
react-component-library3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MKS47GreenfieldAndLegacy/Wage-Gap-Calculator
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 17 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year
groupsdisparitygraphsgraphqlgraph
StraubJones/guides
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
A collection of easy-to-understand guides to programming tools
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
pythonprogramming-toolseasy-to-understandcreative-commonsedtech
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