Christoph Aschwanden
DevOps Engineer Expert at Noble Master LLC
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Aschwanden is a DevOps Engineer Expert based in Zurich with 12 years of hands-on experience bridging backend development, infrastructure, and product delivery. He currently focuses on Spring Boot and FIX-protocol driven backend systems at Zürcher Kantonalbank while also running Noble Master Games, a company he founded to serve the gaming community. His background spans embedded systems, web and Oracle-backed Java development, academic research and teaching, and program coordination for medical research—demonstrating a rare mix of domain versatility. Christoph is an active contributor to open-source game tooling, having authored foundational commits to libGDX's in-app purchase APIs that added cross-platform purchase handling and platform stubs. He holds advanced degrees from ETH Zürich and the University of Hawaii, combining rigorous electrical engineering and computer science training with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues describe him as a developer who thrives on fast-evolving technologies and complex, interdisciplinary challenges.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Electrical Engineering, Master's, Electrical Engineering at ETH ZürichPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
javas10
libgdx10
api-design10
java10
in-app-purchase10
game-development9
cross-platform8
platform-independent8
multiplatform8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
libgdx/libgdx
Jun 2014 - Jan 2021
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 79 commits, 53 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christoph's commits primarily involve the development of the libGDX Pay API. The contributions include the initial draft and improvements to the `PurchaseManager` and `Purchase` interfaces, laying the groundwork for in-app purchase functionality. The changes also introduce the `PurchaseListener` interface, which handles purchase events, and the addition of stub implementations for various platforms (Google Wallet/GWT, Stripe/Desktop).
gamejava-game2dhtml5ios
noblemaster/gdx-teavm
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
WIP. Libgdx Html5 solution in a single repository.
Contributions:73 pushes, 10 branches, 3 tags in 1 year 9 months
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