Erik Moeller
Programs Director at Sovereign Tech Agency
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Moeller is a seasoned programs director and technology leader with over a decade of experience at the intersection of open source, civic tech, and press freedom. He helped build the Wikimedia Foundation’s leadership and engineering capacity from the ground up and later led engineering and project teams at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Now based in Berlin and building Permacommons, he focuses on community-driven, open-source solutions that address societal challenges and information security. His hands-on contributions include clarifying and reorganizing documentation for SecureDrop, reflecting a practical attention to making sensitive tools usable and auditable. Colleagues know him for combining strategic product and engineering leadership with a maker’s detail orientation—especially around documentation and upgrade workflows that reduce operational friction.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
German
Github Skills (4)
sec10
documentation10
python5
journalism4
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
freedomofpress/securedrop
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
GitHub repository for the SecureDrop whistleblower platform. Do not submit tips here!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 release, 78 reviews, 354 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the documentation of the SecureDrop platform. Their commits focused on clarifying setup instructions, adding upgrade guides for different versions, detailing kernel troubleshooting procedures, and providing hardware recommendations. The contributions involved reorganizing the documentation, correcting errors, and adjusting language to improve clarity and user experience, specifically within the context of the project's source code documentation.
usabilitypythonsubmitflask-applicationsecuredrop
freedomofpress/foiafeed-ttnconfig
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Configuration files for the FOIA Feed instance of Track The News
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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