Maged Mortaga
Research Assistant at Universität zu Lübeck
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaged Mortaga is a research-driven software engineer and PhD candidate at the University of Lübeck with nine years of experience building scalable web backends and cloud-ready systems. His work focuses on AI-assisted detection of misinformation across multimodal social media content, combining expertise in video, image, and text analysis with practical DevOps and cloud tooling. He previously developed backend APIs and infrastructure at RWTH Aachen, co-founded a startup, and has a hands-on history of stress-testing and optimizing production services. Comfortable across TypeScript/Node.js, Linux server administration, and AI pipelines, he blends academic research with product-minded engineering to move prototypes toward real-world impact. A curious technologist who signs his GitHub bio "Magic," he enjoys exploring novel intersections of AI and scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Informatics at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (26)
twitter-api8
npm-package7
streaming-api7
mysql-client6
social-media6
strongly-typed6
twitter6
nodejs5
full-stack5
planetscale5
game-programming4
mysql4
go4
database4
cli3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Pr0gramWizard/news-hub
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Development of a framework to access, collect, and study news shared on social media
Contributions:2 reviews, 105 commits, 59 PRs in 6 months
newscollectsocial-mediatwitter
Pr0gramWizard/Escape-TheGame-
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 311 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
schgameescape-gamegame-programmingcouse
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