Magnus Knuth
Senior Data Engineer
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMagnus Knuth is a Senior Data Engineer with 15 years of experience marrying academic research and practical engineering in the Linked Data and Semantic Web space. He is completing PhD research on Linked Data cleansing and change management at Hasso Plattner Institute, exploring how end users can feed back errors and stay informed about evolving datasets. Magnus has led linked-data consulting and engineering efforts at eccenca and DBpedia Association, and now brings that expertise to GROPYUS, translating research insights into production-ready data solutions. His background spans research, teaching, tooling and hands-on systems work dating back to early freelance and university roles, giving him a rare blend of theory, product-mindedness and operational know-how. Based in Leipzig, he often sits at the intersection of data quality, change-tracking and user-centered data workflows—skills that make large, messy knowledge graphs actionable.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science Logics Philosophy of Science, Diploma Computer Science Logics Philosophy of Science at Leipzig University
English, German, French
Github Skills (72)
wikipedia10
code-organization10
structured-data10
python9
shacl9
validation8
semantics8
ontologies8
schema8
php8
unit-testing8
rdf8
schema-validation8
owl7
data-validation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbpedia/events
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
SemanticMultimedia/locopod
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 4 months
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