Christopher Bertels
Software Engineer at Self-Employed
Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolChristopher Bertels is a software engineer with 17 years' experience specializing in programming language implementations, compilers, virtual machines and dynamic languages. Creator of The Fancy Programming Language, he combines deep systems-level expertise with practical SRE and backend engineering skills as an independent consultant based in Osnabrück. His background includes building a multi-target C-subset compiler at Marft and working on large-scale backend systems and streaming computation during his time at BackType/Twitter. An active open-source contributor, he translated and updated German documentation for the well-known Rubinius language platform, reflecting both technical depth and attention to developer experience. Skilled in performance analysis, realtime networking, distributed systems and software security, he brings a rare mix of language design, compiler toolchain work and hands-on production operations.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Universität Osnabrück
German, English
Stackoverflow
101reputation
14kreached
6answers
0questions
Github Skills (11)
rubinius10
internationalization10
localization10
documentation10
virtual-machine8
subscript6
self-interpreter6
language-design6
compiler-construction6
ruby6
programming-language4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rubinius/rubinius
Dec 2010 - Dec 2012
The Rubinius Language Platform
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:31 commits, 1 comment in 2 years
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on translating and updating documentation related to the Rubinius project. Their commits included translating documentation to German, modifying the base directory for German translations, and updating generated HTML pages for various documentation sections, including the profiler and getting started guides. The user's contributions also included fixing a link in the German reading list and translating various how-to guides and the "What is Rubinius" page to German.
esoteric-languageprogramming-languagesvirtual-machinerubiniusprogramming-language
bakkdoor/v-unit
Sep 2008 - Oct 2008
Contributions:297 commits in 23 days
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