Gregor Aisch
Senior Visual Data Journalist
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGregor Aisch is a Senior Visual Data Journalist with 15 years of experience at the crossroads of data, design, and engineering, currently working at DIE ZEIT after a recent stint at ZEIT ONLINE. He co-founded Datawrapper and led its product and technical direction, bringing newsroom-focused tooling from prototype to production while previously shaping visual storytelling as Graphics Editor at The New York Times. Gregor blends full-stack engineering skills—evident from core contributions to mapping libraries like kartograph.py, chroma.js, and analytics tooling in Matomo—with a deep sense for editorial clarity and audience-facing visuals. He has shipped both back-end systems (APIs, map projections, comment backends) and polished front-end demos, and his open-source footprint shows a preference for practical libraries that power data visualization across newsrooms. Based in Berlin with a degree in Computational Visualistics, he pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with hands-on coding, often surfacing non-obvious trade-offs between visual fidelity and performance in production.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computational Visualistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computational Visualistics at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
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Github Skills (49)
fastify10
javascript10
sqlite10
color-theory10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
rgba10
api-design10
sphinx10
django10
css10
databases10
better-sqlite310
php10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
schn4ck/schnack
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
🗣️ Simple self-hosted node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 341 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gregor appears to be primarily responsible for the initial back-end development of the schnack application, a self-hosted commenting system. The user's contributions include setting up the server, defining the database schema, and implementing comment posting and retrieval functionalities. They integrated Fastify and SQLite3 for the back-end, demonstrating an understanding of back-end architecture and database interactions. Additionally, the user implemented basic Twitter authentication.
jsdisqus-clonereactdisqusdrop-in
gka/chroma.js
Dec 2011 - Feb 2022
JavaScript library for all kinds of color manipulations
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 14 reviews, 375 commits in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gregor's contributions primarily involved the creation of the initial chroma.js library and the implementation of its core functionality. The user authored the initial commit, laying the groundwork for color manipulation and conversion capabilities. The code included fundamental algorithms for color transformation between different color spaces such as RGB, HSL, and HSV, and included functions for interpolation between colors.
javascript-librarycolor-conversionmanipulate-colorsjavascriptcolor-manipulation
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