Christian Schaller
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Christian Schaller

Linux Contributor • Director of Engineering, Red Hat • Open Source Enthusiast

Technology professional at Red Hat with over two decades of experience in open source ecosystem. Key contributor to GNOME, GStreamer, and PipeWire, advancing Linux desktop and multimedia technologies.

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Featured Projects

(all made using Claude Code and other AI tools)

GNOME Shell Elgato Light Controller

A GNOME Shell extension for controlling Elgato lights directly from the desktop environment. Seamlessly integrate lighting controls into your Linux workflow.

GNOME Shell Elgato Light Controller Screenshot

Prusa Color Mate

Prusa Color Mate is a tool to help you do multi-material single-extruder printing on a Prusa Core One. It helps you keep track of which color changes you need to do during the print.

Prusa Color Mate Screenshot

Red Hat Planet

This application provides a slowly turning 3D model of planet earth showing the location of global Red Hat offices. It features realistic day and night rendering and also provides some news about Red Hat.

Red Hat Planet Screenshot

XTraceroute AI Revamped

A modernized version of the classic XTraceroute network diagnostic tool, enhanced with AI capabilities for better network path analysis and visualization.

XTraceroute AI Revamped Screenshot

AppForDellWebcam

This application lets you configure and control the settings of your Dell UltraSharp Webcam 4K UHD (WB7022). It is meant to provide as many of the features as possible that the official Dell Windows application does.

Historical Projects

Transmageddon Video Converter

Transmageddon was a video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer. It supported almost any format as input and could generate a large variety of output files. The application was designed to help people create media files for their mobile devices and to provide an easy-to-use multimedia conversion tool without requiring command-line expertise.

This application was written many years ago and is now unmaintained. It is listed here for historical purposes and archival reference.