Christian Walde
Perl Developer at OutpostHost
Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Walde is a seasoned Perl developer and web application specialist with 16 years of experience building user-facing interfaces, backend services, and localized English/German experiences. As an independent freelancer and long-time contributor at community-driven projects, he combines hands-on full-stack work—Perl, PHP, JavaScript, CSS—with system administration and small-team management. He has operational experience managing a 20,000-user community at OutpostHost, where he led moderation, policy, and platform improvements. His open-source contributions span notable projects like MetaCPAN and Dist-Zilla, focusing on cross-platform compatibility, performance, and UX improvements, and he has improved installability and tagging features in the popular Shimmie2 image gallery. Comfortable bridging customer service, translation, and technical development, he brings a pragmatic focus on usability and maintainability to both product and ops. Based in Stralsund, Germany, he often tackles environment-specific issues (e.g., Windows fixes) that reveal an attention to real-world deployment details.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Hochschule Stralsund
Stackoverflow
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36answers
35questions
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Github Skills (26)
filesystem10
multiplatform10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
cross-platform10
perl10
cpan10
php10
api10
build-automation10
file-handling10
javascript9
path-manipulation9
automation9
metacpan9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
rjbs/Dist-Zilla
May 2010 - Mar 2015
scary tools for building CPAN distributions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the core functionality of the `rjbs/dist-zilla` repository, which is a tool for building CPAN distributions. The user implemented features to improve cross-platform compatibility, particularly for Windows, by modifying build scripts and path handling. They also focused on optimization, including speeding up the build process and making the tests more reliable. Furthermore, the user addressed critical build preparation issues.
distributionscpan
metacpan/metacpan-web
Jul 2011 - Mar 2015
Web interface for MetaCPAN
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the MetaCPAN web interface by modifying back-end code related to the API and the display of module information. Their work involved deduplicating code, adding and removing distributions from a rogue list, and fixing a typo. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the navigation and menu structure, improving both discoverability and user experience. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality and user interface of the application.
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