Christoph Beck
CEO at bitcrowd GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Beck is a Berlin-based software founder and CEO with 17 years of experience leading test-driven teams that ship roughly ten new projects a year at bitcrowd. He combines hands-on expertise in Elixir, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and React with a pragmatic, product-focused approach to building reliable systems and mentoring cross-functional teams. Well connected in the Berlin startup scene, he has scaled bitcrowd from CTO to CEO while keeping the company technically hands-on—especially with Elixir specialists who thrive in diverse client environments. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has practical back-end experience (including enhancements to the widely used mp3agic Java library’s ID3 tag handling). Known for learning from every project, he helps clients move faster by translating varied domain constraints into maintainable, test-first solutions.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
alien lab inc
Github Skills (10)
javas10
id3v210
java10
strings9
text-manipulation9
file-handling8
file-processing8
fileio8
file-access8
unit-testing6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mpatric/mp3agic
May 2013 - Dec 2013
A java library for reading mp3 files and reading / manipulating the ID3 tags (ID3v1 and ID3v2.2 through ID3v2.4).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christoph contributed to the `mp3agic` Java library, focusing on improving the ID3 tag handling capabilities. They implemented features like the `TPOS` and `TCMP` ID3v2 tags. Additional contributions include adding support for new music genres, fixing a test case, and addressing a potential null pointer dereference. The user also improved the project by adding the grouping content and version information.
id3v2java-librarymp3mp3-filesid3v1
beckchr/ithaka-treemap
Jul 2012 - Aug 2014
Treemap Layout and Rendering
Contributions:26 commits in 2 years 1 month
renderinglayouttreemap
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