Christopher Hinz
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Hochschule München
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hinz is a hardware-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience bridging embedded Linux, electronics, and C++ systems development. Based in Munich, he moved from hands-on electronics and test-rig construction into embedded software roles at ARRI and into research and teaching as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Hochschule München. He contributed to the HPX C++ library by modernizing its CMake build and package configuration and fixing concurrency regressions, showing attention to tooling, build reliability, and parallelism. His background in device electronics and motor control gives him a practical edge when turning algorithms into robust, testable hardware-software systems. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who combines low-level electrical craftsmanship with modern C++ and build-system expertise.
13 years of coding experience
Fachhochschulreife, Schwerpunkt Technik, Fachhochschulreife, Schwerpunkt Technik at Staatliche Berufsoberschule ScheyernBerufsausbildung, Elektroniker für Geräte und Systeme, Berufsausbildung, Elektroniker für Geräte und Systeme at Städt. Berufsschule für Industrieelektronik MünchenMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cmake10
parallel10
cprogramming-language10
build-automation10
concurrency10
git9
cpp8
documentation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
STEllAR-GROUP/hpx
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Build & Release Engineer
Back-end Developer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 49 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on improving the build system and package configuration of the HPX library. They refactored the build process to use more modern CMake constructs, replacing deprecated features and introducing imported targets for external libraries. Their work included removing unnecessary suffixes from executable targets, updating documentation, and modifying how package configuration files are generated. The user also addressed a concurrency issue by merging executor-enabled overloads of shared_future<>::then and added regression tests.
cppconcurrencyc-plus-plusparallelismstandard-library
chinz07/hpx
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
A general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications of any scale
Contributions:40 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 1 month
runtime-systemmultithreadingdistributed-applicationsparallelruntime
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