Christian Metz
Data Scientist
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarChristian Metz is a Data Scientist based in Dresden, Germany with 14 years of experience applying software engineering practices to data problems. Currently at IBM, he blends back-end development expertise with data science to build reliable data-access and integration layers that support analytics and ML workflows. His open-source contributions include significant back-end work on an Instagram PHP API client, demonstrating practical experience with authentication, data retrieval and API interaction logic. Christian is comfortable navigating both research-like data challenges and production engineering constraints, making him effective at turning complex data requirements into maintainable systems. He brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to bridging APIs, data pipelines, and model-driven applications.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
php10
api10
instagram-api10
curl10
apidoc10
oauth10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cosenary/Instagram-PHP-API
Nov 2011 - May 2015
An easy-to-use PHP Class for accessing Instagram's API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 24 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on developing the back-end functionality for accessing Instagram's API. Their contributions included implementing methods for user authentication, searching, and retrieving user data, such as likes and media. They also added features to interact with the Instagram API, including methods to get and modify relationships. The user's work involved significant changes to the core class and API interaction logic.
instagramphp-class
cosenary/Simple-PHP-Cache
Dec 2011 - Jan 2015
A light, simple but powerful PHP5 Cache Class which uses the filesystem for caching.
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years
cachingfilesystem
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