Dominik Eckelmann
Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDominik Eckelmann is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience based in Berlin, currently contributing at Zalando SE. His background spans hands-on PHP backend work, team leadership and IT strategy roles at notebooksbilliger.de, and long-term engineering at CosmoCode, blending practical system maintenance with product-focused development. Dominik is an active open-source contributor to the well-known DokuWiki project, where he improved Active Directory authentication, XML-RPC behavior, and file/date handling—demonstrating attention to interoperability and edge-case robustness. He holds both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Media Informatics and trained in electronics and data technology, giving him a strong mix of hardware-aware systems thinking and software craftsmanship. Colleagues know him for reliably fixing tricky integration bugs and for quietly improving developer-facing APIs that reduce future maintenance costs.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Medieninformatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Medieninformatik at Beuth Hohschule für Technik BerlinBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Medieninformatik at Beuth Hochschule für Technik BerlinStaatlich geprüfter Assistent für Elektronik und Datentechnik, Staatlich geprüfter Assistent für Elektronik und Datentechnik at GFN College GmbH Berlin
Github Skills (8)
php10
active-directory10
xml-rpc-client10
xmlrpc10
user-authentication9
authentication9
wiki-engine8
dokuwiki7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dokuwiki/dokuwiki
Apr 2010 - Apr 2019
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 125 commits, 3 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to the DokuWiki's Active Directory (AD) authentication backend, introducing functionalities to retrieve user data and additional information from the AD backend. They also made improvements to the XML-RPC interface by adding a feature to the wiki.getBackLinks call and fixing handling of empty strings. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs in the file handling and date format conversion.
wiki-enginetiddlywikiphpmediawiki-extensioneagle
dom-mel/cge-webgl
Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:63 commits in 2 months
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