Timon Christiansen
Engineering Squad Lead at Superchat
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTimon Christiansen is an engineering squad lead and senior fullstack developer based in Berlin with eight years of experience shipping startups from MVP to scale. He combines hands-on backend work—recently transitioning from Go to Kotlin—with frontend intuition honed across founding and early-engineer roles at YC companies. Known for pragmatic engineering practices, he’s built CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and developer tooling as a repeat pattern in early-stage teams. Timon contributes to popular open-source projects, improving usability and adding tested features (notably enhancing a widely used readme-typing-svg demo with vertical centering). He brings a soft spot for startups and a quirky love of Regex, Game of Life implementations and musicals that inform a detail-oriented yet playful approach to problem solving. Fluent in building cross-functional teams, he blends product-minded engineering with a knack for shipping polished developer experiences.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
IHK certified 'Junior Manager', IHK certified 'Junior Manager' at Next TalentsW23 Batch, W23 Batch at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at CODE University of Applied SciencesA-Level, Economy and Politics, A-Level, Economy and Politics at Friedrich-Paulsen Schule
German, English
Github Skills (10)
php10
dynamic10
svg10
github10
read-me10
testing10
javascript8
html7
css6
animation5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DenverCoder1/readme-typing-svg
Apr 2021 - May 2021
⚡ Dynamically generated, customizable SVG that gives the appearance of typing and deleting text for use on your profile page, repositories, or website.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Timon primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the "readme-typing-svg" project. Their work involved adding a new feature for vertical centering, which required modifications to the model, view, controller, and demo site files. They also implemented tests to ensure the new feature worked as expected and addressed a code issue by trimming semicolons. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the demo site to improve user interaction and input field styling.
animationsvgdynamicphpcustomizable
DartCaller/darts-recognition
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
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