Niaz Faridani-rad
Software Architect at Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNiaz Faridani-rad is a Software Architect based in Berlin with 8 years of experience designing and delivering backend systems for public-sector applications. Currently leading architecture at Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg, he progressed through engineering and QA roles there, demonstrating strong operational knowledge of production services. As the maintainer and core back-end developer of LibrePhotos, he contributes Django-based API, image/video processing and unit-test improvements to a notable self-hosted photo management project. He combines applied academic training in media informatics and computer science with hands-on dependency and transcoding work, making him adept at bridging pragmatic engineering and open-source stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Medieninformatik, Master of Science - MS Medieninformatik at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (5)
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
unit-testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LibrePhotos/librephotos
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A self-hosted open source photo management service.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 544 commits, 492 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Niaz made changes to the backend code, primarily focusing on the Django framework. Their work involved modifying URLs, API endpoints, and core application logic. Key changes involved dependency updates, improvements to image processing features related to video transcoding, and adding unit tests.
photo-managementphotoselfhostedexifmachine-learning
LibrePhotos/librephotos-unraid
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024
Unraid Docker Template
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
docker
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