Jacob Rief
Full-Stack Django Developer at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolJacob Rief is a Full-Stack Django developer with 14 years of experience building and improving web applications from backend core libraries to CMS plugins and admin UIs. Based in Innsbruck, he contributes to major open-source Django projects—including Django core, django-treebeard, django-cms and easy-thumbnails—focusing on robustness, image handling, internationalization and admin ergonomics. At the University of Innsbruck and Awesto he applies that open-source mindset to production systems, refactoring architectures and integrating third-party APIs. Trained as a physicist (MSc), he brings a methodical, test-driven approach to problem solving and a knack for subtle compatibility fixes across Django versions. Notably, his work spans both deep framework-level fixes and practical frontend integrations (AngularJS/CKEditor), making him comfortable across the full stack.
14 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
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Github Skills (51)
cms10
file-management10
python10
image-processing10
ecommerce10
rest-framework10
testing10
django10
django-cms10
internationalization10
html-template10
ckeditor10
python-templates10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jrief/django-admin-sortable2
Jul 2013 - Oct 2022
Generic drag-and-drop ordering for objects in the Django admin interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 31 reviews, 543 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the django-admin-sortable2 project by adding setup files and implementing features related to ordering functionality. They added the capability to move items between pages and made improvements to the documentation. The user also fixed naming issues and made improvements to the user interface.
django-admindrag-and-dropdjangopythonsorting
awesto/django-shop
Dec 2011 - Feb 2021
A Django based shop system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4228 commits, 274 PRs, 676 pushes in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the development of the Django-based e-commerce shop system. Their work primarily involved refactoring the application's architecture, including transforming an AngularJS component into an Angular provider and adjusting the implementation of payment gateways. The commits also show modifications to forms and serializers to ensure code cleanliness and correct display of cart items, as well as integration with 3rd-party APIs. They also contributed by fixing various bugs related to admin and application configuration.
djangodjango-shope-commerce
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