Dan Shick
Software Communications Manager
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDan Shick is a Software Communications Manager and technical writer with 11 years of experience bridging engineering and external audiences at Wikimedia Deutschland. He specializes in turning complex MediaWiki and Wikibase concepts into clear, reusable documentation and coordinated communications, while also managing translations to broaden reach. His background as a systems and DevOps engineer gives him rare fluency across infrastructure, tooling and content, so he can both spec and ship reproducible comms processes. Based in Berlin, he combines project management rigor with a translator’s attention to nuance and a persistent, results-focused approach.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Linguistics, English, N/A, Linguistics, English at University of California, BerkeleyAssociate of Arts, Foreign Language (German), Associate of Arts, Foreign Language (German) at Santa Rosa Junior College
German, English
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Github Skills (113)
pixelfed10
activitypub10
mastodon10
docker10
recurly9
janky9
messenger9
chat9
signal9
microblogging9
federation9
policies9
webfinger9
appimage8
linux8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
datn/tweets
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
janky twitter replacement
Contributions:25 commits, 26 pushes in 4 days
twitter-clienttwitterjankyreplacement
wmde/wikiba.se
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Wikibase website
Contributions:28 PRs, 40 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 9 months
wikiwikibase
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