Mischa Gorinskat is an experienced engineering manager based in Berlin with 14 years building custom web solutions that balance efficiency and innovation. Currently leading engineering at Productsup, he blends hands-on backend expertise with team leadership to deliver scalable, production-ready systems. His open-source work on the Newscoop CMS demonstrates deep familiarity with database schemas, multilingual support (including RFC3066bis language handling), and API integrations—skills he brings to newsroom-grade and enterprise projects alike. Known for combining practical object-oriented design with a curiosity for new technologies, he favors pragmatic solutions over novelty for their long-term maintainability. Colleagues describe him as a developer-manager hybrid who still dives into code to unblock teams and improve architectures.
Newscoop is the open content management system for professional journalists. Features for the modern newsroom include multiple author management, issue-and-section based publishing, geolocation and multilingual content management. The enterprise-standard journalist’s dashboard and a templating engine supporting anything from HTML5 to mobile complete this fast production and publishing system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:318 commits, 105 PRs, 150 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mischa primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Newscoop CMS. Their work focused on adding and modifying database schemas for language support, including RFC3066bis language codes. Additionally, the user implemented getter and setter methods for various entities and improved the repository structure for retrieving and managing issues, demonstrating a solid understanding of database interactions and object-oriented design within the project's context. The user also contributed to the API with the addition of a login by credentials.
Contributions:23 PRs, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
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Mischa Gorinskat - Engineering Manager at Productsup