Knud Möller
Senior Consultant Open Data
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKnud Möller is a Senior Consultant in Open Data based in Berlin with 14 years' experience applying Semantic Web, Linked Data, and computational linguistics to public sector and enterprise data challenges. He founded Datalysator and currently helps run daten.berlin.de through BerlinOnline, blending hands‑on engineering (Java, RDF, RDFa, CKAN back-end work) with strategic open data publishing. His PhD in Informatics and background in computational linguistics give him a rare mix of deep semantic theory and practical API- and portal-level implementation skills. Notably, he contributes to the widely used CKAN project, improving authorization, typing, and test coverage—showing a focus on robust, production-ready data infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
Magister Artium, Computational Linguistics, English, Scandinavian Studies, Magister Artium, Computational Linguistics, English, Scandinavian Studies at University of ColognePhD, Informatics, PhD, Informatics at University of GalwayMellomfag, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Mellomfag, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics at Universitetet i Bergen
German, English, Norwegian, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python10
testing10
ckan10
api10
auth10
user-data8
data-model8
data-set8
postgresql8
catalog7
githubactions6
jq6
editing6
open-data6
schema6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Knud primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the CKAN repository. Their work focused on adding and testing authorization functions for various API endpoints, including status_show and several *_followee_count and *_follower_count methods. They added type annotations, corrected whitespace issues, and removed an item from a blacklist, demonstrating a focus on code quality, testing, and API functionality within the CKAN data management system.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
berlinonline/ckanext-berlin_dataset_schema
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Custom dataset schema for daten.berlin.de / Implementation of IDatasetForm
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 7 months
berlinopendatavalidationcustom-datasetopendatadataset
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