Matthias Razum
Chief Information Officer
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Razum is Chief Information Officer at FIZ Karlsruhe with more than 14 years of experience steering research-focused IT, digital libraries, and e‑research services for universities, archives, and cultural memory institutions. He leads operation and software development for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and a portfolio of national portals, blending hands‑on systems design with strategic program management for research data infrastructures. His expertise spans research data management, digital preservation, virtual research environments, and distributed authentication/authorization—skills first honed building online systems for commercial publishers. Matthias is actively engaged in shaping Germany’s emerging NFDI ecosystem and has initiated numerous Digital Humanities projects, demonstrating an ability to translate scholarly needs into sustainable technical platforms. Based in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, he combines long-term institutional leadership with practical software development roots, enabling pragmatic yet future-looking solutions for scholarly communication.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplominformatiker (FH), Diplominformatiker (FH) at Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und WirtschaftEuropäische Schule Karlsruhe
English, GermanProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ExLibrisGroup/Rosetta.RestApiLoaderApplication
Nov 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:36 commits in 10 months
astromatthias/jmeter-maven-plugin
Sep 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 4 months
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