Summary
Christian Sturm is a seasoned software engineer and Co-Founder with 15+ years building scalable backend systems, SRE tooling, and data pipelines across startups and consulting engagements. Based in Vienna, he blends hands-on engineering with architecture and DevOps, having introduced FreeBSD, Redis, and Node.js infrastructure at early-stage companies and led crawling, alerting, and big-data efforts. His toolkit spans nginx, Linux/FreeBSD, Ansible, Terraform, Consul, PostgreSQL, Redis, Go and Python, and he has worked with container tech since 2006 (FreeBSD jails, lxc, Docker). Christian maintains packages and infrastructure for multiple Unix families via pkgsrc and runs test/build servers, reflecting a deep commitment to open-source and platform reliability. He favors simple solutions to hard problems and regularly documents and automates operational workflows to make systems auditable and maintainable. Contact is by email only, underscoring a preference for deliberate, professional collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
German, English