Christoph Walcher
CTO at NECTURE
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolChristoph Walcher is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Vienna with 16 years of experience building and guiding engineering teams across startups and product companies. He blends hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to well-known open-source projects like mongojs and passport-local-mongoose—with strategic leadership roles from Head of Development to multiple CTO tenures at NECTURE. His background spans deep data-access and API work (fixing enum/byte-array mappings in SubSonic and adding flexible authentication fields in passport-local-mongoose) as well as improving core database drivers and cursor semantics. Comfortable moving between code and architecture, he has founded a company and repeatedly scaled engineering orgs while keeping a developer-centric perspective. Colleagues rely on him to translate tricky data-model problems into robust, maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (31)
mongoose10
javascript10
schema-design10
enums10
mongodb-database10
netframework10
schema-org10
database-design10
passportjs10
data-access-layer10
dotnet-core10
nodejs10
csharp10
mongodb10
schema10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
saintedlama/passport-local-mongoose
Nov 2012 - May 2022
Passport-Local Mongoose is a Mongoose plugin that simplifies building username and password login with Passport
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 308 commits, 143 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the `passport-local-mongoose` library. Their main contribution involved adding the capability to override field names like username, password, and hash, making the library more customizable. They also implemented helper methods for registering and finding users by username. These changes improved the library's flexibility and ease of use for integrating authentication in Mongoose-based applications.
mongoose-pluginpassport-local-mongoosepassportjavascript
mongo-js/mongojs
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
Node.js module that implements the offical mongo api
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:214 commits, 55 PRs, 130 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the core logic and functionality of the mongojs library, including fixing bugs related to the handling of database indexes, improving code readability through refactoring, and implementing new features such as event handling and cursor operations. They also introduced essential features like isCapped, updateMany, insertOne and updateMany and implemented methods to set limits, batchSize, sort and skip. The user also refactored code for efficiency and addressed some testing issues within the project.
mongodbnodejsmongodb-driver
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