David Potočnik
Founder, CTO at middlemachine
Las Palmas, Slovenia
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Top SchoolDavid Potočnik is a founder and CTO with 14 years building ideation-driven knowledge technology, semantic web systems, and pragmatic ML/IR prototypes—leading his research-oriented company middlemachine to bridge thought-to-action workflows with graph, NLP, and visualization tech. He combines deep engineering (Java, Solr, Linux, DevOps) with information architecture and a philosophy background to design unconventional solutions in concept mapping, data sonification, and quantified environments. David has startup and R&D experience from Zemanta to bespoke home automation and health projects, and he runs a hackbase network promoting coliving, cooperatives, and sustainable open infrastructure. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he focuses on turning abstract epistemic problems into usable, self-hosted tools for research and organisations.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of Ljubljana
Slovenian, English, German, serbian, croatian, Spanish, Russian
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Github Skills (66)
video-conferencing10
collaborative-editing10
pdf-generation10
collaboration10
etherpad10
matomo10
intranet10
documents10
rich-text-editor10
linux9
google-analytics9
security9
web-analytics9
marketing9
php9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dcht00/etherpad-lite
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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