Moritz Schubotz
Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMoritz Schubotz is a researcher and software engineer with 13 years of experience at the intersection of information retrieval, mathematical knowledge services, and backend engineering. Based in Berlin, he leads efforts at FIZ Karlsruhe to build a research group on mathematical information retrieval, tackling scalability of literature, formal proofs, and research artifacts for zbMATH. His background spans academia and standards institutions — including roles at NIST, TU Berlin, and an interim professorship — reflecting deep expertise in reproducible research and data quality (he served on the EOSC FAIR Metrics task force). Moritz is also an active open-source contributor to high-impact projects like MediaWiki, where he improved backend HTTP handling, caching, and SPARQL client behaviors while adding robust tests. He holds a PhD in Informatics and a Diplom in Physics, a combination that shows both theoretical rigor and practical coding craftsmanship. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between producing research-grade software and shaping infrastructure-level standards that improve how mathematical knowledge is curated and accessed.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bergische Universität WuppertalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at Technische Universität Berlin
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Github Skills (14)
mediawiki10
php10
guzzle10
phpunit10
testing10
back-end-development9
sparql8
wikipedia-api6
javascript6
latex6
mathml6
linebreak6
wikipedia6
mediawiki-api6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Jun 2013 - 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 & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:35 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Moritz contributed to improving the MediaWiki back-end code, specifically focusing on HTTP requests and object caching. They added tests for GuzzleHttpRequest, mimicking `CURLOPT_POST` behavior for consistency. The user also updated a script for PHPUnit coverage, and improved SPARQL client functionality by adding fluent setters. Furthermore, they corrected a maintenance script and fixed a type hint, enhancing code quality.
wikimediaphpwikipediacollaborative-editingruns
gipplab/node-moi-helper
Feb 2019 - Sep 2024
Helper to discover Mathematical Objects of Interest (MOI)
Contributions:7 PRs, 50 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 7 months
discovermathematicalmoiinterest
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