Marcus Jaschen
Web Development System Operations
Germany
Summary
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RockstarMarcus Jaschen is a seasoned web development and system operations professional with 16 years of experience keeping high-traffic niche media sites running, including MTB-News, Rennrad-News and eMTB-News. As founder and CEO of Ministry of Web and long-term lead at those publishing platforms, he blends hands-on backend engineering, DevOps, and site reliability to deliver resilient production systems. His open-source work on phpgeo demonstrates practical expertise in geospatial tooling—adding coordinate formatting, GeoJSON support, area calculations and robustness fixes that improve real-world mapping and routing features. Having moved between roles at startups and enterprises (Siemens, Ingenico, Morgen Studios), he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with disciplined operations and deep familiarity with PHP-driven web stacks. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who prefers fixing issues in production as much as architecting scalable solutions.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
geographical-information-system10
php10
gis10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
api-design8
testing7
unit-testing7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mjaschen/phpgeo
Feb 2013 - Dec 2022
Simple Yet Powerful Geo Library for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 433 commits, 65 PRs in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Marcus significantly contributed to the phpgeo library, enhancing its functionality by adding support for coordinate formatting, including Decimal Degrees, Decimal Minutes, and DMS formats. They implemented new distance calculation methods and also improved the existing polygon implementation by supporting the get area calculation, and creating the get reverse method, and also fixing some issues. Furthermore, the user integrated GeoJSON support for coordinates and polylines. They also focused on improving the code's robustness by addressing division-by-zero issues and improving code style.
ellipsoidgeogps-trackergeo-librarydistance-calculation
ministryofweb/analytics-campaign-urls
Sep 2018 - Dec 2023
Adds Campaign parameters to URLs (Google Analytics, Piwik, Matomo …)
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 3 months
urlsparametersanalyticspiwikmatomo
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