Peter Placzek
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Freelance (Self employed)
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Placzek is a M.Sc. computer scientist and full‑stack developer with eight years of experience blending academic research and practical engineering at the University of Tübingen and as a freelancer. He develops robust tooling and database features—evidenced by contributions to the popular rollup/plugins project (implementing the Terser plugin with parallel execution and source-map support) and enhancing database conflict handling in CodeIgniter4. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and ops, he previously supported critical healthcare IT systems as a systems administrator. Based in Tübingen, he combines rigorous academic training in Medieninformatik with hands-on open-source impact, often tackling performance and compatibility challenges that sit between research and production.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Medieninformatik, Master of Science - MS, Medieninformatik at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Github Skills (20)
terser10
javascript10
swc10
plugin10
php-framework10
php10
mysqli10
rollupjs10
database-design10
nodejs10
codeigniter10
postgresql9
better-sqlite39
sourcemaps9
typescript9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rollup/plugins
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
🍣 The one-stop shop for official Rollup plugins
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:94 reviews, 4 commits, 26 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter's primary contribution revolves around the development and enhancement of the `rollup/plugins` repository, focusing on the Terser plugin. They implemented the initial release of the plugin, including core functionality, test suites, and documentation. Furthermore, the user improved the plugin's functionality by introducing parallel execution and source map generation. They also added support for the SWC plugin, as well as the ESM-shim.
rolluprollup-pluginsbundlerstopshop
codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 35 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions primarily focused on enhancing database interaction within the CodeIgniter4 framework. They implemented an "ignore" functionality, allowing for more control over insert, update, and delete operations, particularly in scenarios involving potential data conflicts. The user modified existing database builder classes, including those for SQLite3, MySQLi, and PostgreSQL, to incorporate this feature, demonstrating a clear understanding of database-specific implementations. They also added testing and refined the ignore functionality by introducing a boolean parameter.
codeigniterphpframeworkcodeigniter4php7
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