Johannes Dewender
Full Stack AI Developer at Allianz Technology
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJohannes Dewender is a Full Stack AI Developer with 16 years of experience building robust back-end systems, automation tooling, and full-stack applications from Barcelona. He combines academic rigor from Humboldt‑Universität and Uppsala with practical engineering at organizations like Fraunhofer IBMT, Charité, and now Allianz Technology. A long-time open-source maintainer in the MusicBrainz ecosystem, he has hands-on expertise optimizing media tooling (Picard, libdiscid) and improving developer experience through documentation contributions to high-profile projects such as Sphinx. Comfortable across Linux ops, CD-ROM and drive handling, and data-driven back ends, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance and maintainability. Colleagues will find him as comfortable scripting contributor automation as he is designing full-stack features for regulated research platforms.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker, Informatics, Mathematics, Diplom-Informatiker, Informatics, Mathematics at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinComputer Science, Computer Science at Uppsala universitet
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
git10
restructuredtext10
python10
sphinx10
data-processing10
documentation10
back-end-development9
musicbrainz9
automation9
automations9
platform-independent8
cross-platform8
minecraft8
project-management8
multiplatform8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
metabrainz/picard
Apr 2013 - Oct 2014
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the MusicBrainz Picard tagger application. Their work involved optimizing CD lookup speed by utilizing more efficient library calls and improving Mac drive detection. Furthermore, the user refactored the CD-ROM handling code and addressed a build issue related to including the `socket` module.
pythonpicardaudio-fileacoustidmusicbrainz
sphinx-doc/sphinx
Jan 2013 - Oct 2013
The Sphinx documentation generator
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily focused on updating and refining the documentation for the Sphinx autodoc extension. Their commits involved introducing and modifying documentation for the `:annotation:` option, originally the `:novalue:` option, within the autodoc directives. This included updating the documentation files (doc/ext/autodoc.rst) to reflect the changes and additions made to the autodoc functionality, ensuring users understand how to use the feature. Additionally, the user made related updates to tests to correspond with the documentation changes.
pythonsphinx-documentationdocumentation-generatorsphinx-extensiondocumentation-tool
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