Christoph Von Gellhorn
Engineering Lead at Shippit
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Von Gellhorn is an experienced Engineering Lead based in Sydney with 13 years building and scaling web and microservice architectures across startups and established IT firms in Germany and Australia. He moved from PHP/MySQL and Magento-era web apps into modern frontend and serverless stacks, specialising in TypeScript, Node.js, React/Next.js and event-driven microservices backed by DynamoDB. At Shippit he progressed from software engineer to staff engineer and now leads delivery-focused teams, driving high-throughput, highly available services while mentoring engineers and embedding monitoring and DevOps best practices. He combines hands-on implementation with system design and cross-team knowledge sharing, bridging product, ops and engineering. A pragmatic problem-solver, he brings a background in test-driven development and vocational mentoring that helps translate complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate (Metal Technology) Precision Metal Working, Higher School Certificate (Metal Technology) Precision Metal Working at Technical College (BBS Winsen (Luhe), Winsen (Luhe), Germany)Record of School Achievement, Record of School Achievement at Secondary School (Realschule 2 Winsen-Roydorf, Winsen (Luhe), Germany)State Recognized Vocational Title, State Recognized Vocational Title at Vocational School as part of Vocational Education and Training (G18 Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany)Certificate of Primary Education, Certificate of Primary Education at Primary School (Schule im Borsteler Grund, Winsen (Luhe), Germany)
German, English
Github Skills (21)
sass10
webpack10
lodash10
skeleton10
boilerplate10
placeholder7
css7
caf7
landing-zone6
redaction5
e-mail5
svg5
tailwindcss4
react4
website-template3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cvgellhorn/mail-redactor
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 7 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 6 months
mailemailredaction
cvgellhorn/OneDB
May 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:84 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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