Michael Große
Senior Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Große is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web applications, currently at the Wikimedia Foundation and formerly driving Vue migrations and cross-functional product work at Wikimedia Deutschland. He blends back-end PHP expertise (notably contributions to the high-profile MediaWiki project) with front-end skills in Vue.js and TypeScript, and has improved user-facing touch interactions in open-source JS libraries. His background includes automation and testing for DokuWiki, Active Directory authentication improvements, and practical experience adapting editor toolkits like ProseMirror. Comfortable working across the stack, he frequently mentors peers through code review and advocates pragmatic, performance-minded enhancements such as JavaScript deferral feature flags. Based in Leipzig, he brings a physics-trained analytical approach to engineering challenges and a track record of contributing to widely used open-source platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Freie Universität Berlin
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
mediawiki10
javascript10
jquery10
apidoc10
phpunit10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
testing9
authentication9
user-authentication9
responsive-design9
active-directory9
automations8
user-interface8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dokuwiki/dokuwiki
Dec 2014 - Feb 2021
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 505 commits, 73 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the DokuWiki project by implementing tests and fixing file size issues related to internal video files. Additionally, the user added and refined the authentication plugin, which included enhancements for user management in Active Directory environments, such as retrieving user counts and implementing search functionality. The user's contributions extended to improvements in the user interface and the addition of a feature flag for Javascript deferral to improve performance.
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wikimedia/mediawiki
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the MediaWiki project by modifying existing code and adding new functionalities. Their contributions included implementing features using the splat operator in PHP, resolving issues related to jQuery and HTML elements, and documenting and testing parameter cloning behavior within the jQueryMsg module. They also removed a side effect in a data provider used for testing and adapted the PSR-7 interface for the MWHttpRequest class.
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