Denny Vrandečić
Visiting Professor at King's College London
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolDenny Vrandečić is a computer scientist and technology leader with over a decade of experience building semantic web infrastructure, currently serving as Visiting Professor at King's College London and Head of Special Projects at the Wikimedia Foundation. He founded Wikidata, co-developed Semantic MediaWiki, and now leads the ambitious Abstract Wikipedia effort to make knowledge multilingual and machine-readable. Previously an ontologist at Google, he blends deep research roots (PhD from KIT) with hands-on product and open-source leadership. Beyond tech, he’s an unexpected creative voice—authoring tabletop RPG modules—illustrating a rare mix of formal ontology craftsmanship and playful content design.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree Computer Science, Doctor's Degree Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Abitur, Abitur at Geschwister Scholl Gymnasium, Stuttgart-SillenbuchDipl.-Inform. Philosophy Computer Science, Dipl.-Inform. Philosophy Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
German, English, Croatian
Github Skills (108)
jquery-plugin10
multilingual10
internationalization10
nlg10
mediawiki-extension10
jquery9
mediawiki9
structured-data9
arxiv9
quarto8
wikipedia8
datasets8
texlive8
json-ld8
schema-org8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googleknowledge/qlabel
Mar 2014 - Feb 2020
jQuery plugin for creating multilingual websites
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 11 months
multilingual-websitesjquery-pluginjquerymultilingual
vrandezo/lambda-cli
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
A command line interface that can connect to WikiLambda installations such as Wikifunctions.
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
compilationsubcommandscommand-line-interfaceinstallationsargument-parsing
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