Christian · Berlin 🇩🇪
_{Just a guy who likes to build things that (sometimes) work}

I'm Christian — a developer from Berlin who's been writing code for about 9 years now. Some of it was even good!

I run a small company called evest.io where we help businesses figure out this whole "digital transformation" thing. We also built auftrag.ai (a procurement platform for German public tenders) and gesetze.ai (because German law needed to be even more confusing, now with AI ✨).

Honestly? I Google stuff, connect the dots, and somehow it works. I'm not the smartest person in the room — I just don't give up until the tests pass.

I spent years doing event-driven architecture until I realized my Kafka topics looked like my browser tabs: 47 open and I have no idea why. Now I'm a reformed developer who believes in types over events and boring code that works over clever code that doesn't.

Kotlin    → My reliable partner of many years. Still going strong.
Rust      → The exciting new thing I'm learning. The borrow checker 
            yells at me daily. I think that means it cares?

_{(I also mass-produce YAML for Kubernetes. It's not glamorous but someone has to do it.)}

• Good problem-solving > raw talent. You don't need to be a genius. You need patience and Stack Overflow.
• Types are friends, not constraints. They catch your mistakes at 2pm, not 2am in production.
• It's okay to not know things. The best devs I know ask "dumb" questions all the time.

_{Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to say hi 👋}

<sub>Why do Rust developers never get lost?
Because they always know their lifetime. 🦀

^{(...I'm so sorry.)}</sub>