Claus Wolf
Director, Library Service Engineering at EBSCO Information Services
Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolClaus Wolf is a director-level technology leader with 11 years of focused experience building and integrating library software and services, now leading Library Service Engineering at EBSCO in Hesse, Germany. He combines deep technical hands-on experience—contributing backend fixes and API integrations to the popular open-source VuFind discovery portal—with a long track record of pre-sales, product and professional services leadership across Europe. Claus has repeatedly bridged Technology, Sales and Customer Care, scaling geographically distributed teams that deliver middleware, front-end customizations and SaaS integrations tailored to library infrastructures. He is as comfortable debugging PHP drivers and query-string issues as he is advising customers and shaping product roadmaps. His background in business administration with Chinese studies and early roles spanning operations and sales give him a practical, cross-cultural edge in client-facing technical strategy. Known for turning complex integration challenges into dependable operational services, he blends engineering rigor with commercial empathy.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration Chinese, Business Administration Chinese at Ludwigshafen University of Business and SocietyHudson Valley Community College
German, English
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Github Skills (11)
apim10
php10
datetime-format10
api10
back-end-development10
xcode6
fmdb6
ios6
instagram-api6
swift6
sqlite6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vufind-org/vufind
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A library resource discovery portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Claus primarily focused on back-end development tasks, specifically improving and extending the functionality of the VuFind library resource discovery portal. Their contributions include fixing query string construction for EDS Autocomplete requests, adding due status and fixing date/time formatting within the FOLIO driver, and enhancing the getMyHolds function to provide more properties. These changes involved modifications to PHP code related to API integrations and data handling.
portalresource-discoverydiscoveryresource-librarydiscovery-portal
ebsco/edsapi-simple-php-sample
Sep 2014 - Jun 2021
edsapi-simple-php-sample
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
phpmysql
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