Christian Gehlen

I’m living near Aachen, Germany, working remotely as a Technical Product Manager in R&D. Most of my day revolves around turning complex IT requirements into actionable tasks, designing architecture for cloud-native systems, and writing structured documentation that actually gets read.

Outside of work:

• 🏡 I’m a homeowner learning that houses and gardens are never finished — just in a constant state of “almost there”.
• 🏋️ I’m in the gym several times a week, making peace with gravity through weightlifting — best decision ever for an office-bound spine.
• 🐈 I’m managing a multi-cat household with colorful histories and occasional social experiments. One joined us for free with the house.
• 🦂 I study and keep centipedes, which I document over at scolohub.com. Yes, I like the weird ones.
• 🎶 I used to played bass in a black metal band, did the occasional editorial work in the EBM scene, and maintained two webzines for evil music.
• 💻 I tinker with code in my free time: Hugo, Ansible, Mermaid, PlantUML — whatever scratches the “docs as code” itch.
• 📚 I enjoy reading. Formerly I used to read a lot of fictional stories, but grew more into educational non-finction nowadays.

I’m not actively looking for new work, but always open to exciting conversations about architecture, telecom, or creepy crawlies.