Felix Lohmeier
IT Consultant Managing Partner at Open Culture Consulting
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Lohmeier is an IT consultant and managing partner based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience helping cultural heritage institutions modernize their IT. He co-founded Open Culture Consulting in 2016 after a career in librarianship and senior IT roles at major German research libraries, combining domain knowledge of archives and libraries with practical systems leadership. Felix contributes to notable open-source tools like OpenRefine, improving data-cleaning features and usability—an asset for institutions wrestling with messy cultural data. He has also taught IT at several universities, bringing a pedagogical approach to complex technical projects and stakeholder communication. This blend of curatorial insight, hands-on back-end development, and organizational leadership makes him a go-to specialist for digitization and data-quality challenges in the cultural sector.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Magister Artium (M.A.), Kulturanthropologie / Europäische Ethnologie, Magister Artium (M.A.), Kulturanthropologie / Europäische Ethnologie at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Github Skills (7)
data-wrangling10
javas10
data-cleaning10
java10
data-analysis9
javascript8
data-science8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 45 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Felix contributed to the OpenRefine project by enhancing its functionality and user interface. Their work includes adding and modifying features related to autosave functionality and initial Java heap space. They also added new facets, including "facet by blank", "Count non-blank values/column", and "Count non-blank records/column" to the menu, and corrected minor bugs within these features.
pythonopenrefinemessy-datareconciliationdatacleaning
felixlohmeier/mermaid-docker
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
mermaid is an open source tool for generating diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown. This docker image contains mermaid 7.0.11 and is build on top of the official node 8.8.1 image.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
mermaiddocker-imagesimilardockerflowchart
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