Christian Zosel is a software engineer based in Bern, Switzerland, with 11 years of professional experience and a background that includes a Master's in Physics and a CAS in Computer Science from ETH Zürich. He has been at Adfinis since 2016, applying solid engineering practices to backend systems while bridging rigorous academic thinking with practical software delivery. An active open-source contributor, he made significant backend contributions to the widely used prettier/plugin-php, enhancing PHP parser and formatting support for modern language features including PHP 8 constructs. Christian combines deep problem-solving skills from physics with hands-on coding of parsers and printers, making him equally comfortable tackling low-level language tooling and scalable backend work.
11 years of coding experience
CAS, Computer Science, CAS, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Contributions:54 releases, 77 reviews, 188 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian contributed significantly to the Prettier PHP Plugin, focusing on enhancing the PHP parser's capabilities. They added support for core PHP language constructs, including classes (with inheritance and interfaces), magic methods, and control structures, enabling more comprehensive code formatting. The user also worked on expanding encapsed string support, and implemented features like support for PHP 8 features. The contributions involved modifying the core printer logic to correctly handle these constructs and integrate them within the formatting process.
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