Oliver Tacke
IT Freelancer at SNORDIAN
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Tacke is an experienced IT freelancer and H5P specialist based in Hamburg with over a decade of hands-on work spanning educational technology, software development, and consulting. He combines full-stack contributions to core H5P projects—such as the H5P Moodle plugin and the interactive video component—with practical course design and institutional consulting for universities and edtech teams. Comfortable shipping UI polish and backend file/storage fixes alike, he brings a business-information-systems background (Diplom) and a long history of enabling large-scale online courses and developer communities. A self-taught coder since the Commodore 64 era, he deliberately focuses on meaningful H5P work and eschews conventional recruiting noise, preferring direct collaboration and focused freelance engagements.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom / German diploma (equivalent to master), Wirtschaftsinformatik / business information systems, 1.8 (~87 %), Diplom / German diploma (equivalent to master), Wirtschaftsinformatik / business information systems, 1.8 (~87 %) at Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
German, English, French, Japanese, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
361reputation
6kreached
22answers
2questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
moodle10
css10
user-interface10
file-storage10
php10
language-translation10
html9
translation7
internationalization7
macos6
react6
windows6
wordpress6
drupal6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
h5p/h5p-interactive-video
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 149 commits, 39 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the front-end development of the interactive video component, focusing on enhancing the user interface and functionality. Their work involved adding features like playback rate controls and a rewind button, including the implementation of CSS classes for visual elements and JavaScript code for feature interaction. These changes required modifications to CSS styles, JavaScript functionality and i18n localization files.
h5p/moodle-mod_hvp
Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
H5P Plugin for Moodle
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed to the H5P Moodle plugin, making changes related to language files, file storage, and the embed functionality. They updated language translations, improved file handling, and addressed sizing issues related to content embedding. Their work spans both the user interface aspects of the plugin and the underlying file management and storage mechanisms.
h5p-pluginbackbonejsmoodleemacs-packagesh5p
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