Christopher Walton
Second Chief Software Architect at Advancis Software & Services
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Walton is a seasoned software architect with 16 years of experience designing and implementing robust integrations for security and monitoring systems from his base in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area. As Second Chief Software Architect and former Lead Software Engineer at Advancis, he specializes in plugin development that connects fire alarms, intrusion detection, surveillance, and other mission-critical systems, and regularly handles Level 3 support including crash-dump analysis. His background in game and audio programming (including console engine work, asynchronous I/O subsystems, shaders, and DSP plugins) gives him deep low-level debugging skills for race conditions, deadlocks, and memory corruption that few architects retain. A lifelong programming enthusiast who turned a hobby into a career, he combines pragmatic engineering with an appetite for designing flexible, efficient subsystems. He holds computer science credentials from Technische Universität Darmstadt and brings a proven track record of shipping reliable integrations used across many sites.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
English, German
Github Skills (21)
database-connector10
dbd9
dbi9
csharp9
code-analysis8
visual-studio8
perl8
database-access7
dotnet7
roslyn7
compiler5
mysql5
javascript4
nodejs4
parser4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arke/ADR-20XX
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 8 days
nationstatesupdateraiding
roavin/DBD-mysql
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 days
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