Christian Wagner
Senior Associate Software Engineer
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolChristian Wagner is a Senior Associate Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building healthcare-focused web and backend systems, currently creating better patient and caregiver experiences at Oracle Health. He has a strong track record at enterprise healthcare companies including Cerner, where he worked on critical care components, and contributes to performance-oriented open-source tooling such as GraalVM by improving compiler static analysis and native image handling. Comfortable across the full stack, Christian pairs backend compiler work with practical web development from earlier roles, reflecting both systems-level depth and product-minded delivery. Based in Kansas City, he blends engineering rigor from a computer engineering degree with hands-on customer support experience, giving him an unusual empathy for operational reliability and user needs. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful problem solving that spans low-level optimization to user-facing features.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering with Software Emphasis, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering with Software Emphasis at Oklahoma Christian University
English
Github Skills (3)
java10
javas10
static-analysis10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/graal
Jun 2018 - Sep 2025
GraalVM compiles applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:104 reviews, 14 PRs, 563 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions focused on strengthening graphs with constants by propagating them through static analysis, leading to the modification of the core Java compiler. The user worked on handling of LoadFieldNode, LoadIndexedNode, and Invoke nodes, and also introduced an option to disable this strengthening process. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to the processing of static final fields during the image build.
graalvmjavaaotcompiler
christianwimmer/graal
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere :rocket:
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
graalvm
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