Ilja Sperling
Frontend Lead at Mineral Minds
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIlja Sperling is a Frontend Lead and freelance full‑stack/data product developer based in Berlin with nine years of experience building web apps, data pipelines, and visualisations. He blends hands‑on Svelte and Astro front-end work with data engineering, GIS/mapping and DevOps to deliver polished, production-ready products for NGOs, research projects and startups. His background includes tech leadership roles (Tech Lead at zedela and Ranking Digital Rights) and a long freelance practice that spans UX/design, CI/CD and hosting. Trained in Computational Social Science, he often sits at the intersection of policy research and engineering—turning messy research data into interactive, actionable interfaces. A former Bundeswehr squad lead, he brings operational discipline and mentorship to fast-moving teams while favouring pragmatic, open-source-friendly toolchains.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Communication Studies / Political Science, Communication Studies / Political Science at Freie Universität BerlinMaster of Arts - MA Computational Social Science, Master of Arts - MA Computational Social Science at Otto-Friedrich-Universität BambergCommunication Studies / New Media, Communication Studies / New Media at University of Leeds
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (96)
mysql-database10
realtime10
postgresql10
databases10
postgrest10
heroku10
web-development10
firebase10
auth10
couchdb10
deno10
javascript10
minio10
architecture10
browser10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ellocke/GithubPage
May 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 166 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
fubits1/notion-export-demo
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 15 pushes in 2 months
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