Christoph Otter
Senior Software Entwickler In at Circle
Trier Region Germany
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Top SchoolChristoph Otter is a senior software engineer based in the Trier region of Germany with 12 years of hands-on experience across frontend and backend systems and a strong focus on Rust, automation and smart-contract runtimes. He has driven core CosmWasm libraries as a maintainer and lead developer, contributed nested-query and schema-derive work to the widely used CosmWasm framework, and implemented production-grade contract logic in cw-plus. Christoph combines pragmatic tool choice with low-level systems rigor—favoring Rust for safety and efficiency—and has a track record of improving developer workflows through automated code and documentation generation. His open-source contributions span crypto infrastructure (Binance API client), multimedia frameworks, and IDE tooling, demonstrating an unusual breadth from developer tooling to blockchain runtimes.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Universität Trier
German, English
Github Skills (35)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
trading10
testing10
haxe10
java10
cryptocurrency10
javas10
binance10
api10
dotnet-core10
smart-contracts10
multimedia10
wpf10
rust10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wisespace-io/binance-rs
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Rust Library for the Binance API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the development of the Rust-based Binance API library. Their work involved implementing and extending functionalities related to the Binance Futures API, including adding methods for market orders, changing leverage, and fixing data structures for order responses. The contributions also included improvements to the Savings API, such as the addition of the `get_all_coins` and `asset_detail` methods, as well as incorporating error handling, and testing related functions.
apirust-librarybinance-exchangerustbinance-api
fdorg/flashdevelop
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
FlashDevelop is a free and open source code editor.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 29 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily focused on improving the search functionality within the "OpenResourceForm" component, which is part of the FlashDevelop editor. Their contributions included refining the search algorithm, reverting sorting changes, and adding tests to validate the improved search capabilities. They also addressed result grouping in the ResultsPanel and made minor code refactoring improvements. The user also worked on the integration of source control and making some changes to the project files.
javascripteditoremacs-packagesmakecodecode-editor
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