Christian Mahnke
Forum Wissen at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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SeniorChristian Mahnke is a cultural-heritage-focused software professional with 13 years of experience building and managing digital library systems and projects at Göttingen’s universities and state libraries. Currently at Forum Wissen, he combines software development and project leadership to preserve and digitally present everyday cultural artifacts of the 20th century. His background spans hands-on development (Goobi and other library tools), task and work package leadership in Europeana-related projects, and operational roles in digital library departments. Based in Göttingen, he blends technical know-how with curatorial sensibilities, often publishing or showcasing parts of his collections online. He is particularly attentive to making mundane, everyday objects legible in digital heritage systems—a niche that informs both his engineering decisions and outreach.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
tiles10
tag-cloud10
oculus10
static-site-generator10
mirador10
openseadragon10
viewer10
png10
cms10
python10
annotations10
tilemap10
image-processing10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
cmahnke/font-action
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:49 PRs, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
cmahnke/briefsteller
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:213 PRs, 389 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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