Florian Brucker
Senior Software Developer at UBIMET Group
Donaueschingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorFlorian Brucker is a Senior Software Developer based in Donaueschingen, Germany, with 13 years of experience solving interdisciplinary engineering problems. At UBIMET Group he delivers reliable backend systems and brings a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex domain challenges. An active open-source contributor, he has improved internationalization, background job reliability, and Unicode handling in the widely used CKAN data management platform. Florian combines hands-on bug fixing and documentation improvements with thoughtful feature enhancements, showing attention to both correctness and usability. Colleagues describe him as a creator who prefers clear, maintainable solutions over clever shortcuts. He often surfaces subtle issues—like plugin translation gaps and DB access in async jobs—that others overlook.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
python10
internationalization10
ckan10
testing9
javascript9
matlab9
jinja29
machine-learning9
data-mining9
nltk9
ansible9
nlp9
code-coverage9
documentation8
postgresql8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 46 PRs, 222 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily addressed issues related to the CKAN platform's internationalization and extension functionality. Their contributions focused on fixing translation problems within plugins, enhancing JavaScript i18n features by adding new translation functions and integrating extension translations. They also addressed bugs related to database access in background jobs, and improved documentation on Unicode handling and configuration options.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
CodeforKarlsruhe/mietmap
Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 10 months
karlsruhe
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