Christian Flodihn

Working as a software engineer, I mostly work with CDR data, interpreting calls from telecom systems into sql databases used by frontend to present various pieces of data to end customers. I also been working with TEM (Telecom Expense Management) systems. The technology at Ciceronen is mostly based on C#, Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server.

A company Christian got in contact with operating from China, Christian was lead the tech lead engineer in one of their teams, leading a group of about 10 people developing client and server side functionality for an online action game.

Christian started to own company to make some small games. Released a simple point and click shooter, an action/smash and a strategy game for mobile.

DemonWare is Activision/Blizzards online service department and is dealing with 340+ million gamers, handling roughly 300,000 requests per second at peak. Christian was part of the server team, developing features for matchmaking, online presence and storage used by various games, such as Modern Warfare 3, Skylanders and Guitar Hero. Christian also participated in building and designing a system that consolidated all players across platforms for all Activision games in one account system. He used technologies like Python, Erlang, RESTful API's and MySQL sharding to develop scalable and high performance applications.

Yazzgoth was a small software company based in Cork, Ireland. I was headhunted to work as lead developer on their MMO engine project called ArenaEngine: www.arenaengine.com.

During his spare time, he have developed a server technology being able to handle 14,000 concurrent players in one area, processing 70,000 messages per second with response times between 10-30 milliseconds. Source code: https://github.com/flodihn/NextGen

Oderland is a web hosting company, my job was to develop internal systems and act as second line support for more technically difficult tickets. I have programmed most internal systems in HTML/CSS/PHP with SQL back-ends. I have also been interfacing a web based system to an economy system with a program written in C, running inside an Erlang server.

During 10 months I was trained in the Swedish Rapid Reaction Forces, the tasks were oriented to urban combat, crowd control and securing classified areas/objects.