Niels Braczek
Founder Owner at BSDS Braczek Sophisticated Digital Solutions
Breklum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolNiels Braczek is a founder and backend-focused engineer with 13+ years of professional experience building AI-enabled systems for public administration and regional civic services. He combines deep technical skills in backend engineering, semantic models and document-focused applied AI with practical governance insight from long-standing municipal council work and leadership roles in local infrastructure. As owner of BSDS Braczek Sophisticated Digital Solutions he designs open-source-friendly platforms that simplify administrative workflows, improve public information accessibility, and support decision-making. His contributions to notable projects like Joomla CMS demonstrate a pragmatic approach to extensibility and data handling in real-world systems. Based in Breklum, Germany, he pairs business-computer science training with decades of hands-on systems design to drive durable digital public infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Computer ScienceBusiness Computer Science, Business Computer Science at Certified Business Economist
German, English, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
content-management-system10
cms10
event-handling10
component-development10
joomla10
php10
cm10
content-management9
multilingual8
page-builder7
site-builder7
html6
php-codesniffer6
ocr6
wordpress6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Mar 2013 - May 2021
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 17 commits, 18 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Niels's contributions centered on enhancing the Joomla! CMS backend functionality by implementing event handling within various components. This involved adding the `onContentPrepareData` event to components like `com_users`, `com_menus`, and others, allowing for manipulation of form data during the content preparation phase. These changes improved the extensibility and flexibility of data processing within the Joomla! CMS, enabling developers to customize and integrate with different component forms.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
nibra/joomla-cms
Jul 2015 - Aug 2022
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Contributions:46 pushes, 39 branches, 1 tag in 7 years 1 month
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
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