Christoph Knittel is a Vienna-based CTO and founder with 15 years of professional experience and a background in technical mathematics, leading Control Center Apps and his own consultancy. He blends systems-level thinking from long-term roles in embedded and enterprise projects with modern frontend and mobile expertise, actively contributing to ReScript, ReasonReact and ReScript React Native repositories. Christoph pairs compiler and tooling work—such as improving ReScript’s compiler and JS generation—with practical UI/mobile bindings and cross-platform fixes, reflecting both deep language internals knowledge and hands-on product delivery. His career spans engineering, project management and company leadership, and he brings a pragmatic focus on robustness, browser and platform compatibility, and developer ergonomics.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing., Technische Mathematik, Dipl.-Ing., Technische Mathematik at University of Technology, Vienna
Contributions:26 reviews, 84 commits, 146 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christoph contributed to the development of ReScript bindings for React Native, focusing on implementing and enhancing various React Native components. Their work involved adding new components like `TextInput`, `Button`, `Switch`, `Modal`, and `RefreshControl`, along with APIs such as `BackHandler`, `Clipboard`, `Keyboard`, `Vibration`, and `ActionSheetIOS`. Furthermore, the user made changes to existing components and APIs, and fixed ref issues, indicating active development and maintenance of the bindings.
ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:64 releases, 551 reviews, 154 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christoph focused on implementing and improving the ReScript language compiler. They added console.log/info/warn/error bindings with various parameter counts and fixed issues related to parsing and generating JavaScript code for different features, including date parsing and toJSON serialization. The user also addressed various compiler and build system bugs, including Windows-specific issues and file path handling. They demonstrated proficiency in ReScript, compiler development, and JavaScript code generation.
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Christoph Knittel - CTO at Control Center Apps GmbH