Christian Wach
Director at Spirit of Football CIC
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Wach is a director and long-standing interactivist with 14+ years of software and community-focused experience, blending hands-on backend development with civic and cultural projects. Based in Radstock, he directs Spirit of Football CIC while freelancing across digital and wireless community initiatives, applying a background in time-based media and social psychology to user-centered technical solutions. An active open-source contributor to CiviCRM core, he’s improved URL handling and WordPress multisite integration—practical fixes that keep civic platforms interoperable at scale. Known for bridging nonprofit mission work and robust backend engineering, he brings a rare mix of cultural insight and pragmatic codecraft to civic tech integrations.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Time-based Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Time-based Media at University of the West of EnglandLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English, German
Github Skills (14)
wordpress10
php10
url-scheme10
url-encoding10
url-parser10
url-validation10
url-parsing10
mysql9
api8
apidoc8
database-design7
version-control7
git7
localization7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
civicrm/civicrm-core
Oct 2014 - May 2022
CiviCRM (Core Application and Framework)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 57 commits, 64 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on improving the CiviCRM core application, addressing issues related to URL handling, and enhancing the system's compatibility with various CMS environments, particularly WordPress. Their work involved modifying code related to URL redirection, encoding and decoding, and ensuring proper integration with WordPress multisite configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented and refactored code related to handling of multi-select values and applied hooks for creating and editing of domain records.
backbonejscivicrm
christianwach/civicrm-admin-utilities
Sep 2014 - Sep 2022
CiviCRM Admin Utilities is a WordPress plugin that modifies and enhances CiviCRM's appearance and behaviour in single site and multisite WordPress installs.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 550 commits in 8 years 1 month
centeradminreservation-systemwordpresswordpress-admin
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