Martin Kurz
Senior-Entwickler, Architekt at WDR mediagroup digital GmbH
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Kurz is a seasoned Java-focused senior developer and architect with 14 years of experience building backend systems for German public broadcasters, currently shaping platform architecture at WDR mediagroup digital in Cologne. He brings deep expertise in JEE, XML/XSLT processing, content repositories (JCR), SQL and enterprise Java stacks, and practical experience with CMS integrations like Teamsite and Sophora. An active contributor to the well-known rometools/rome project, he has improved feed handling, generics safety and serialization, showing attention to maintainability and interoperability in open-source Java. Trained in philosophy and German studies, he combines analytical rigor and clear communication with a pragmatic engineering approach to translate complex editorial requirements into robust, production-ready software.
14 years of coding experience
Philosophie, Germanistik, Philosophie, Germanistik at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (6)
atom-editor10
javas10
rss10
java10
maven9
generics9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rometools/rome
Sep 2013 - Aug 2017
Java library for RSS and Atom feeds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on enhancing the Java library for RSS and Atom feeds. Their contributions involved integrating maven site configurations, fixing URL issues, and adding generics signatures and serialVersionUIDs. The user also updated code for cloning and copying objects. Additionally, the user worked on converting elements between wirefeed and syndfeed in RSS converters and added support for various tags on RSS channels and items.
rssfeedsjava-libraryjavaatom
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