Christoph Hochstrasser
Gesellschafter-Geschäftsführer at gizmocraft, design and technology GmbH
Ybbsitz, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolChristoph Hochstrasser is a seasoned web engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience designing and delivering bespoke web applications, UI/UX prototypes, design systems and frontends, now leading gizmocraft as Gesellschafter-Geschäftsführer. He blends hands-on Laravel, Vue.js and Tailwind development with product-minded consulting—having run his own studio and led product design and engineering for high-traffic platforms like Talenthouse. Christoph is an active back-end contributor to notable PHP open-source projects such as Composer and Packagist, where he improved autoload/include-path handling and package management workflows. Comfortable across frontend and backend, he routinely translates design systems into production-ready code and tests, with a pragmatic focus on maintainability. Based in Lower Austria, he brings an engineer’s rigor from an electronics/communications technical background to web product strategy and implementation.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ing., Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Kommunikationstechnik/Techniker, Ing., Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Kommunikationstechnik/Techniker at HTL Waidhofen an der Ybbs
German, English
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Github Skills (27)
dependency-management10
api-rest10
reflection10
web-application10
package-management10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
php10
webapp10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
reflections10
rest-api10
web-development10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
composer/composer
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
Dependency Manager for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 comments, 1 issue in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christoph's contributions focused on enhancing Composer's package management capabilities, specifically related to include paths. They implemented features to allow packages to define include paths and integrated them into the autoloading process. Furthermore, the user added tests to ensure the correct generation and usage of include paths within the Composer ecosystem. They also modified the logic for fetching package metadata from repositories.
phppackage-managerdependency-managerpackagescomposer
Luracast/Restler
May 2013 - May 2013
Simple and effective multi-format Web API Server to host your PHP API as Pragmatic REST and/or RESTful API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily focused on enhancing the `Restler` API server's functionality. They implemented features to parse comments for ValueObject properties, catch exceptions, and add support for array notations. Their work involved modifications to the `Resources.php` file, including the implementation of a namespacing fix. Furthermore, the user refined the type parsing from `@var` annotations.
multi-formatrestlercomposerpragmaticrest-api
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