Christina Unger
Software Engineer & Product Owner at OKAPI:Orbits
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristina Unger is a software engineer and product owner with 13 years of experience blending rigorous research and hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. With a PhD in Computational Linguistics and a BS in Mathematics, she has moved from academic research into startup co-founder roles and consulting, most recently shaping product and engineering at OKAPI:Orbits. She specializes in software quality, performance analysis and tuning, and has an unusual affinity for legacy code—comfortable maintaining and evolving long-lived Java and Ada systems. Christina pairs technical depth with product thinking, steering teams from exploratory prototypes to production-ready features. Her background as a technical writer and postdoc gives her a clear, analytical approach to complex requirements and documentation. Based in Bielefeld, she often bridges domains where language, logic, and engineering intersect to produce pragmatic, auditable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at FernUniversität in HagenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics at Utrecht UniversityM.A. Logic & Philosophoy of Science Theoretical Linguistics, M.A. Logic & Philosophoy of Science Theoretical Linguistics at Leipzig University
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Github Skills (61)
parser9
lemon9
parsing9
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lexicon8
grammar8
parser-generator8
multilingual8
agda8
dsl8
c997
restlet6
python6
ruby6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cunger/escape-velocity
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:249 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
okbqa/rocknrole
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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