Christian Olear
(Senior) Fullstack Web Developer
with solid experience in PHP backend development and a passion for web crawling & scraping
I’m a web developer with 17 years of professional experience and strong expertise in PHP backend development. Based in Linz (🇦🇹), I help companies build custom web apps – web projects that go beyond simple static websites.
I’ve developed a particular passion for web crawling and scraping: I’m the creator of the open-source library crwlr.software and founder of the SaaS platform crwl.io built on top of it.
In my work, I place great value on writing clean, maintainable, performant, and secure code.
Experience
Founder of crwl.io and Freelance Web Developer
10/2022 until now
- Building crwl.io - a low-code SaaS app that lets users configure crawlers/scrapers via UI.
- Creating crawlers based on client requirements and delivering the requested data.
- Supporting clients in analyzing and making use of the extracted data.
- Development of custom web apps as part of my freelance work.
Web Developer at karriere.at / jobs.at
05/2008 until 12/2021
- Lead Web Developer at karriere.at - 01/2019 until 12/2021
- Lead Web Developer at Spin-Off jobs.at - 05/2017 until 12/2018
- Web Developer at karriere.at - 04/2012 until 05/2017
- "Online Producer" at karriere.at - 05/2008 until 04/2012
Achievements
- Over 500 ⭐️ on GitHub for the crwlr packages.
- crwlr/query-string became a third party dependency of Bref and has been installed nearly 3,000,000 times.
- Won first paying customers for crwl.io. 🚀
- Pitched crwlr in Jetbrains' PHP Annotated YouTube edition.
- Speaker at local coding meetups.
- Published an article for entwickler.de / PHPMagazine.
Education
Bundeshandelsakademie Schärding
(Matura)
09/2001 until 05/2007
Technologies & Skills
- PHP
- Javascript
- Laravel
- Vue.js
- Inertia.js
- Tailwind CSS
- PEST / PHPUnit
- Symfony
- Docker
- nginx
- MySQL (/PostgreSQL)
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Slim
- Zend (now Laminas)
- Node.js
Languages
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German: native
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English: advanced