Christoph Lorenz
Teamleiter Content- Und Metadatenmanagement Im Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolChristoph Lorenz is a seasoned software engineer and team leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building Java-based systems, Linux operations, shell and Perl tooling, and leading metadata and content teams at the Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ). He combines deep backend expertise with practical DevOps skills and a history of driving platform migrations, partner integrations, and test-driven development across high-traffic environments. Having progressed from developer to technical lead and now team head at the Bavarian State Library, he excels at aligning engineering practices with large-scale digitization and metadata workflows. Christoph’s background includes designing server-side tracking, API and photo management architectures, and owning release and operations processes—skills forged at internet and portal companies like FriendScout24 and AOL Germany. Outside core engineering he brings uncommon hobbies and perspectives—Android development and mechanical watchmaking—that reflect a detail-oriented, systems-focused mindset. Based in Greater Munich, he blends institutional archival challenges with pragmatic software craftsmanship to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Technische Universität München
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (56)
dfa10
jvm-bytecode10
alpine-linux10
tuple10
itil10
laravel10
editing10
collections9
hugo9
bengali9
inheritance9
gamma9
asset-management9
management9
openseadragon9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clorenz/rmmusic
Apr 2015 - Mar 2025
REST / Spring MVC / Thymeleaf based implementation of mmusic, a music collection management system
Contributions:2 PRs, 83 pushes, 3 branches in 10 years
spring-bootmanagement-systemspring-mvc-thymeleafmusic-collectionspring-mvc
clorenz/WatchCheck2
Sep 2014 - Mar 2020
Contributions:168 commits, 145 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 6 months
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