Philipp Claßen
Director Of Data Engineering
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Claßen is a Director of Data Engineering based in Munich with 12 years of experience building privacy-focused, production-grade software and engineering teams. He leads data engineering at Ghostery while remaining an active contributor to the popular Ghostery browser extension, where his front-end work helped harden UI privacy features and tracker visualization. His background spans senior engineering and technical lead roles at Maltego, Cliqz, and Mercateo, giving him deep experience across analytics, browser privacy, and scalable back-end systems. Philipp combines hands-on development with technical leadership, bridging product needs and data infrastructure delivery. Collected academic training in computer science from Universität Passau underpins a pragmatic, security- and privacy-oriented approach to engineering. Peers describe him as a developer who still dives into UI details to protect user privacy even as he runs data teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Universität Passau
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Github Skills (40)
jakartaee10
javascript10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
aws-lambda10
amazon-iam10
firefox-addon10
ui-design10
chrome-extension10
terraform10
tomcat10
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
eclipse10
netty9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ghostery/ghostery-extension
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Ghostery Browser Extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:481 reviews, 83 commits, 244 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the Ghostery browser extension. They fixed icon issues, updated code related to adblocker API changes, and implemented features related to the tracker wheel visualization. Furthermore, the user made changes to prevent tracking by preventing visible breaks in segments of the tracker wheel, and preventing google from tracking user interactions.
firefoxopera-extensionbrowserprivacyedge-extension
ghostery/ghostery-browser-linux-support
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Ghostery Browser on Linux (installer and Linux-specific documentation)
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 10 months
browsermanjaroinstallerlinuxghostery
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