Christoph Kappestein
Software Development Team Lead at ARTEMEON Management Partner GmbH
Heiligenhaus, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristoph Kappestein is a software development team lead with 13 years of experience building type-safe, OOP-driven API solutions in PHP, TypeScript and Java, currently leading RegTech engineering at Artemeon in Germany. He founded and drives the Apioo project, a collection of API-focused open initiatives pushing for a more connected API landscape, and showcases his work at chrisk.app. Hands-on by background, he progressed from developer to lead solution architect and now leads a development team, blending architecture, delivery and test automation expertise. An active open-source contributor and QA-focused engineer, he has contributed rigorous schema and test work to notable PHP projects like PHPPresentation, ensuring standards-compliant output. Outside of work he’s an open-source enthusiast and chess player, a combination that hints at a methodical, strategic approach to software problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Specialised Computer Scientist, Specialised Computer Scientist at Heinrich-Hertz-Berufskolleg
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
test-automation10
php10
phpunit10
xml9
json6
http6
authentication6
bearer-token6
typescript6
rest6
angularjs6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PHPOffice/PHPPresentation
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
A pure PHP library for reading and writing presentations documents
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the project by creating and modifying tests, specifically focusing on validating the PowerPoint 2007 writer functionality. The commits involved writing schema tests to ensure the generated XML conforms to the Office Open XML File Formats standard. Code changes included adjusting the test suite based on the schema requirements and fixing code style to maintain the quality of the tests.
pptpresentationpdfopenxmlpowerpoint
apioo/psx-cloudevents
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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