Alexander Gesinn
Managing Director & Partner at gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG
Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Gesinn is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building semantic enterprise software, data integration, and workflow automation solutions. As Managing Director and Partner of gesinn.it, he blends executive leadership with deep technical expertise spanning the full software lifecycle—from product management and head of development roles to CIO responsibilities. He brings proven experience delivering complex projects for international clients and a practical focus on semantic wikis and knowledge-centric automation. An active open-source contributor, he has improved CI/CD and backend stability for the high-profile Semantic MediaWiki project, demonstrating strengths in DevOps and backend engineering as well as architecture. Based in Regensburg, Germany, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset that turns information-heavy processes into automated, maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. (FH), Dipl.-Inf. (FH) at Fachhochschule Regensburg
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Github Skills (19)
mediawiki10
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php10
rdf9
docker8
database8
databases8
dockers8
testing7
vagrant6
activiti6
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
🔗 Semantic MediaWiki turns MediaWiki into a knowledge management platform with query and export capabilities
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 25 commits, 46 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Semantic MediaWiki project by improving the CI/CD pipeline and fixing backend issues. They upgraded the CI environment from Trusty to Bionic, updated dependencies, and integrated RDF4J. Additionally, they addressed specific bugs related to data item handling and property chain markers, enhancing the functionality and stability of the wiki platform. These actions suggest a combined focus on backend development and infrastructure management.
smwcollaborationmediawiki-extensionknowledge-graphsemantic-web
gesinn-it-pub/docker-mediawiki-tools
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Tools to support docker image creation for docker-mediawiki
Contributions:14 releases, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 2 years 11 months
docker-imagedockerimage-creationcreationmediawiki
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