Chris Coltsman
Team Lead - Flexibility at gridX
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChris Coltsman is a seasoned software leader with over 20 years of hands-on development experience and a recent focus on leading teams that build home energy management and time-series data systems. Currently Team Lead - Flexibility at gridX, he previously ran the Data Lake and Calculator team, shaping the backbone for large-scale time-series infrastructure. Known for combining technical depth in Java and systems engineering with strong coaching and mentoring, he helps teams grow through feedback-driven leadership. His career spans enterprise and optimization software at companies like IBM and INFORM, giving him a pragmatic approach to complex, production-critical problems. Based in Aachen, Germany, he brings a steady mix of engineering rigor and people-first management to deliver reliable energy-tech solutions. An understated strength is his commitment to continuous improvement—both in systems and in the capabilities of the engineers he leads.
5 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University
Github Skills (61)
spring-boot-admin10
spring10
restful-api10
api-client10
generator10
java10
infrastructure10
api10
sdk10
rest-client10
rest10
openapi-generator10
api-server10
spring-boot10
spring-cloud10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ccoltx/aws-ecs-demo
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Sample application deploying to AWS ECS
Contributions:7 PRs, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
deployingecsamazon-web-servicessample-applicationterraform
ccoltx/spring-boot-kafka
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Sample project for Spring Boot Kafka
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 8 days
spring-bootspringkafkajavaspring-boot-kafka
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