Christopher Lenz
Manager, Advisory Risk Management at KPMG Deutschland
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolChristopher Lenz is a seasoned software engineering manager with 20 years’ experience, currently leading the development and evolution of internal applications for KPMG Deutschland’s Advisory Risk Management practice. He combines hands-on expertise in modern web and mobile stacks—especially TypeScript/React and C#/ASP.NET—with a pragmatic product mindset for enterprise tooling. A long-time open source contributor and former core team member of projects like Trac and CouchDB, he also has targeted contributions across ecosystems, from AngularJS UI fixes to Python i18n improvements in Babel. Based in Frankfurt and holding a diploma in Computer Science from Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, he blends strong technical depth with governance and delivery experience in regulated environments. Notably, he couples legacy compatibility savvy (fixing AngularJS and Bootstrap regressions) with a continual appetite for learning new languages and platforms.
19 years of coding experience
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Wiesbaden
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
python10
internationalization10
ui-design10
uid10
localization10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
unicode10
gettext10
css9
bootstra8
html8
bootstrap8
babeljs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
python-babel/babel
May 2007 - Apr 2010
The official repository for Babel, the Python Internationalization Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:225 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher appears to be a back-end developer with a focus on internationalization, contributing primarily to the Babel project. They added code to handle string formatting, locale settings and timezones, incorporating enhancements to generate .po files, including correct header information and handling character encodings. Further, the user implemented features such as the inclusion of Python formatting flags, the parsing of catalog headers, and the incorporation of fuzzy matching for message updates, while also improving the performance and robustness of existing functions.
babelpythoninternationalizationinternationalization-libraryi18n
angular-ui/ui-select
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
AngularJS-native version of Select2 and Selectize
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 31 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the `ui-select` AngularJS component. Their contributions included fixing sizing issues related to the search input field, particularly when the input's visibility was dynamically controlled, such as by the `ng-disabled` attribute. They addressed compatibility issues with older AngularJS versions and added an `append-to-body` attribute to improve dropdown behavior. The user also fixed a regression issue affecting the Bootstrap theme, and implemented fixes to z-index related issues.
multiselectselectizeangularjsangularselect2
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