Christian Zirpins
Director (Leiter) Deputy Speaker (Stellvertretender Sprecher) at IDSS - Institute of data centric softwaresystems
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Zirpins is a full professor and technology leader specializing in distributed systems, middleware and web-based systems engineering, currently serving as Director and Deputy Speaker at the Institute of Data Centric Softwaresystems in Karlsruhe. With a PhD from the University of Hamburg and a Marie Curie fellowship at UCL, he blends rigorous academic research—over 60 publications—with hands-on industry experience in B2B integration and big data from SEEBURGER. He has led research teams and transfer centers, translating service- and cloud-computing research into applied projects and commercial solutions. Christian remains an active practitioner: his GitHub contributions include full-stack courseware for distributed systems, reflecting a continued commitment to education and practical tooling. Colleagues know him for bridging formal research methods and pragmatic software architecture, often steering collaborations across academia and industry. He combines deep technical expertise with a track record of building teams that operationalize complex service-oriented and cloud-native systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science at University of Hamburg
English, German
Github Skills (11)
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javascript10
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front-end-development10
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expressjs9
bootstrap9
bootstra9
nodejs9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zirpins/bdelab
Nov 2016 - Jan 2019
Big Data Engineering Lab
Contributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 2 years 2 months
partitioningbig-datasparkdata-engineeringdistributed-computing
zirpins/vs2lab
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
HsKA Distributed Systems 2 Lab
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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