Christian Friedow
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at apm
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Friedow is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience crafting pragmatic, elegant software and architectures across web and blockchain domains. He blends hands-on full-stack development and systems engineering—shaping reliable production services at companies from healthcare research (Charité) to autonomous driving (understand.ai) and now at apm. A Hasso Plattner Institute alumnus, he pairs formal IT-systems engineering training with entrepreneurial experience as a long-term self-employed developer. Christian is also an active open-source contributor (notably refining TypeScript definitions in the widely used DefinitelyTyped repo) and favors reproducible, low-level tooling, reflected in interests like Nix and Rust. Practical, user-focused simplicity and a knack for turning complex problems into clean solutions are recurring themes in his work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS IT-Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
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Github Skills (16)
type-system10
static-typing10
typescript10
typesc10
typescripts10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
node-module6
nodejs6
npm6
javascript6
dictionary6
firebase6
default-value6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Technical Contributor (Type Definitions)
Technical Contributor (Type Definitions)Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributes to the `definitelytyped` repository, focusing on type definition updates for the `tough-cookie-filestore` package. Their work involves refining existing type definitions, correcting code style issues, and ensuring the accuracy of the types against the underlying JavaScript library. These changes include updates to interfaces, namespace declarations, and exports to enhance type safety and compatibility within TypeScript projects utilizing this library. This ensures better integration and usage for the wider TypeScript community.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
bptlab/mantichor-frontend
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Frontend for the Mantichor choreography framework
Contributions:40 commits, 7 PRs, 22 pushes in 8 months
frontend
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