Christoph Strobl
R&D Engineer at Broadcom
Pregarten, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolChristoph Strobl is an R&D engineer with 13 years of experience building robust Java data access frameworks and driving Spring ecosystem features from Pivotal to VMware and now Broadcom. He has deep expertise in Spring Data, contributing substantive backend work across high-profile projects such as Spring Boot, Spring Data MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and Commons, notably implementing reactive scrolling, aggregation operator support, and MongoDB client integrations. A pragmatic engineer and organizer (ejug Austria), he blends hands-on coding, testing and documentation to improve developer productivity and framework stability at scale. Christoph balances technical rigor with polish—adding tests, fixing edge cases like is-new detection and SQL-injection vectors, and keeping dependencies up to date. Outside work he’s a fantasy-book addict, father of three and a year-round plant-based workout enthusiast, bringing consistent discipline and curiosity to engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (57)
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application-framework10
spring10
cassandra10
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amazon-elasticsearch10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spring-projects/spring-data-mongodb
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
Provides support to increase developer productivity in Java when using MongoDB. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 36 reviews, 1566 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christoph focused on enhancing the Spring Data MongoDB module. Their work involved upgrading the MongoDB Java Driver, ensuring data integrity for both regular and embedded fields, and fixing issues with the application of sort and projections during different stages of aggregation. They also added support for several aggregation operators, like `$rank`, `$denseRank`, `$dateSubtract`, and `$dateTrunc`.
spring-bootspring-dataapidddproductivity
spring-projects/spring-data-examples
Aug 2014 - Nov 2022
Spring Data Example Projects
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 57 commits, 46 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christoph added several examples to the spring-data-examples repository. Contributions include a MongoDB text search example, a sample for Meta usage, and examples of derived queries and various other methods. The user was involved in developing samples for Spring Data Redis and Solr, which demonstrates proficiency in different data storage technologies. Furthermore, the user also added samples for Spring Data for Apache Solr, showing a wide range of contributions.
spring-bootspring-dataexample-projectsspringjava
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