Christian Weichel
CTO & Co-Founder at Ona
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Weichel is a CTO and co-founder with 13+ years of hands-on engineering leadership, currently building an AI software engineer at Ona. He combines a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction with deep experience in cloud-native architecture, digital fabrication, and systems engineering to bridge user experience and scalable backend systems. His career spans startups and research labs, including roles at TypeFox, Bosch, and Microsoft Research, where he translated research insights into production-grade software. An inventor and published researcher, he holds multiple patents and awards that reflect a penchant for practical innovation. Christian is also active in developer tooling and CI/CD ecosystems (notably work around Gitpod and werft), demonstrating a commitment to improving developer experience. Based in Kiel, Germany, he seeks opportunities that blend commercial impact with research-grade technical rigor.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
IT specialist, IT specialist at Werner Siemens-Schule StuttgartBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Hochschule FurtwangenDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Computer Interaction at Lancaster University
English, German
Github Skills (193)
distributed-tracing10
spring-data10
language-server-protocol10
react-pdf10
disposable10
theia10
dockerfile10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
command-line-tool10
eclipse10
multiarch10
jetbrains10
provisioning10
docker-compose10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
csweichel/werft
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Just Kubernetes Native CI
Contributions:78 releases, 12 reviews, 52 commits in 1 year 3 months
devopsdockerk8skubernetescontinuous-integration
gitpod-io/dazzle
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
dazzle is a rather experimental Docker image builder which builds independent layers
Contributions:14 releases, 19 reviews, 48 commits in 1 year 5 months
containersdockerfiledocker-image-builderdocker-imagebuilds
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