Christoph Zimmermann
Linux Inlaws
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristoph Zimmermann is a seasoned technology strategist and hands-on engineer with over 30 years’ experience helping enterprises adopt open source and modernize their IT across telecommunications, finance, retail and healthcare. He advises and architects cloud-native, secure SDLC practices as Senior Solution Architect at Redis while co-hosting the popular Linux Inlaws podcast and driving FLOSS outreach. Technically fluent in Python, Ruby, C/C++, embedded systems, Linux, virtualization and cloud ecosystems, he also contributes to notable projects such as the cross-platform system monitor Glances. His background spans pre-sales, compliance, mobile and regulatory requirements, enabling him to translate complex domain needs into pragmatic technical solutions. A published author of textbooks on operating system architecture and a former academic researcher, he combines deep theory with practical delivery. Christoph is selective about opportunities and prefers roles aligned with enterprise transformation and open-source impact.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer science, PhD, Computer science at Trinity College DublinMSc., Computer science, MSc., Computer science at The University of Bonn
English, German
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
python10
system-monitoring10
multiplatform9
git8
restful-api6
documentation5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nicolargo/glances
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 PRs, 8 comments, 2 issues in 23 days
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `glances` system monitoring tool. Their contributions include the implementation of a feature to load additional plugins, which involved modifications to `stats.py`, `main.py`, and `model.py`. Further improvements were made to the curses interface and documentation updates. The user also demonstrated proficiency in DevOps through merging branches and configuration changes for additional plugin directories.
pythonhtopoperating-systemsgnumulti-platform
monochromec/Events
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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