Torsten Curdt
Technical Advisor at Edkimo
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarTorsten Curdt is a seasoned technical advisor and hands-on engineering leader with 23 years of experience building scalable infrastructure, data pipelines, and APIs across startups and large platforms. Comfortable as a technical team lead or fractional CTO, he blends coding (Golang, Java, JavaScript, Rust) with DevOps and architecture to streamline development and operations. He helped scale systems at SoundCloud beyond 16 million users, contributed Java fixes to Apache Commons Compress, and shipped full-stack and iOS projects from prototype to App Store. Torsten is an active open-source contributor and technology evangelist who also advises on hiring and team growth, and he prefers connecting only with people he has worked with or spoken to. Based in Berlin, he enjoys designing for distributed teams and pragmatic solutions that balance immediate product needs with long-term operability.
23 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
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Github Skills (32)
tar10
objective-c10
caching10
ios10
bzip10
archiving10
checkbox10
css10
css-grid10
proxy10
network-programming10
java10
http-proxy10
javas10
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Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
tcurdt/iProxy
Jan 2010 - Nov 2021
Let's you connect your laptop to the iPhone to surf the web.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Torsten primarily worked on the iOS application, enhancing its functionality and user experience. They implemented UI changes, including adding an instructions screen and clickable URLs, while also updating the app for iOS 4.1 and HD. Further, the user refactored code and incorporated features like background support and IP detection. They also integrated HTTP proxy support.
iphonesurfiosletlaptop
apache/commons-compress
Jul 2006 - Feb 2016
Apache Commons Compress
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 8 comments in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Torsten's commits primarily involve modifications to Java source code within the Apache Commons Compress project, including changes to the TarArchiveEntry and BZip2CompressorInputStream classes. The commits focus on fixing deprecations, improving imports, and addressing issues related to archive entries and stream handling. These modifications suggest a focus on maintaining and enhancing the project's core functionalities, specifically related to archive manipulation and compression.
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