Alexander Loechel
Referent IT-Projekte at Plone Foundation
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Loechel is an experienced IT project lead and software engineer with 14+ years in production IT and over 20 years of broader IT involvement across academia, aviation, and defense. At LMU he drives IT projects and previously led internet services, combining hands-on Python/web engineering with IT management and project/financial controlling. He contributes to the Plone ecosystem—joining the security team and making core CMS improvements such as modernizing CSS compilation and Python 3 compatibility—which reflects his focus on secure, maintainable open-source platforms. Comfortable with real-time systems and lifecycle management, he excels at rapidly untangling complex technical and organizational challenges in international and academic settings.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Universität der Bundeswehr München
English, French, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (5)
plone10
python10
back-end-development10
zope9
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plone/Products.CMFPlone
Jul 2017 - Jan 2021
The core of the Plone content management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily involved refactoring the Plone CMS core by replacing the cssmin library with PyScss for CSS compression, ensuring Python 3 compatibility. This change affected the `cook.py` file, which handles resource compilation and involved modifications to the `setup.py` file to include the new dependency. Furthermore, the user fixed import statements and addressed unicode handling issues within the resource compilation process, specifically related to OFS.Image.
content-management-systemplone
zopefoundation/RestrictedPython
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
A restricted execution environment for Python to run untrusted code.
Contributions:20 reviews, 210 commits, 135 PRs in 6 years 10 months
pythonzopeplonerestrictionsuntrusted
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