Christoph Rieß
Ruby Fullstack Developer at blueReport (cognita AG)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Rieß is a seasoned Ruby fullstack developer based in Berlin with 18 years of hands-on experience building web products and leading engineering teams. He has held senior and leadership roles including CTO, Head of Engineering, and Lead Developer across fintech and SaaS environments, and currently contributes to blueReport at cognita AG. Pragmatic and efficiency-minded, he champions KISS, DRY and YAGNI principles to deliver maintainable systems using Ruby on Rails, React and pragmatic tooling choices. His background spans startup and product-focused companies where he paired engineering with customer-facing functions like marketing and support to improve outcomes. Unfinished academic studies at Universität Leipzig underline a long practical trajectory from research-group projects to production software.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (nicht abgeschlossen), Computer Science, Diplom (nicht abgeschlossen), Computer Science at Universität Leipzig
German, English, French
Github Skills (115)
zeplin10
visualization10
triplestore9
tiddlywiki9
api9
clojure9
database9
data-visualization9
rust9
postgresql9
dashboard9
ruby9
semantic-web9
mediawiki-extension9
skos9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
carlfin/row-crud-gsheet
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Simple Wrapper around the Google API gem for accessing Gsheets on a per-row-base for CRUD operations
Contributions:10 PRs, 42 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 7 months
apigoogle-apirubycrudgem
carlfin/gcs_stream_upload
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
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