Lars Christensen
Solutions Architect at Helvetia Baloise Group
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLars Christensen is a Solutions Architect based in Basel with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and building distributed, fault-tolerant systems using Erlang, Elixir, and Go. He combines deep systems-level expertise from embedded ARM platforms and UNIX/Linux operations with strong Java and object-oriented design skills to deliver reliable production services. At Helvetia he has driven API management and gateway infrastructure projects leveraging Envoy, Elixir and AWS, and he has a track record of shipping pragmatic self-service platforms. An active contributor to VerneMQ, Lars improves both documentation and code for a widely used Erlang-based MQTT broker, reflecting his focus on clarity and maintainability. He co-founded a startup and ran an Erlang/Elixir consultancy, demonstrating both entrepreneurial initiative and hands-on troubleshooting of legacy systems. Not open to relocation but highly experienced in remote collaboration, he pairs academic training from Aarhus and ETH Zürich with practical engineering across cloud and embedded domains.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Danish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
mqtt10
documentation10
mqttnet10
erlang7
maven6
paho6
publish-subscribe6
persistence6
java6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vernemq/vernemq
May 2015 - Jan 2020
A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP. Built for high quality & Industrial use cases. The VerneMQ mission is active & the project maintained. Thank you for your support!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:10 releases, 589 commits, 654 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily contributed to the project's documentation, enhancing the existing guides by providing simple, clear, and lightweight overviews. The user also fixed typos and streamlined the content in existing documentation pages. Furthermore, the user made code changes in the code base that would modify the code and make it easier to understand for the end user.
casesindustrial-ioterlangindustrial-communicationmessage-queue
vernemq/plumtree
Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
Epidemic Broadcast Trees
Contributions:2 commits, 24 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 5 months
adobe-experience-managerbroadcastepidemicaemtrees
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