Philipp Gortan
Head Of Newsroom Development at APA - Austria Presse Agentur
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Gortan is a seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building newsroom and content systems, currently Head of Newsroom Development at APA in Vienna. He combines hands-on backend engineering with product leadership, having led product and content-routing teams at Gentics Software and APA-IT. Passionate about data journalism, open source and privacy-aware software, he drives media projects that balance editorial needs with robust, agile engineering. His open-source contributions include improvements and documentation fixes to Gentics Mesh, an established headless CMS used by developers. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to solving newsroom distribution and integration challenges.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
German, English, French
Github Skills (15)
javas10
cms10
headless-cms10
java10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
apidoc9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
api9
elasticsearch9
documentation8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
gentics/mesh
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Philipp's commits primarily focus on code improvements and documentation updates within the Gentics Mesh project. They address typos, improve wording in various files, and unify Elasticsearch spelling. Additionally, the user makes fixes related to configuration files and addresses issues like correcting the usage of the word "ingoing."
cmsmeshgentics-meshgraphql-apiapi-first
mephinet/mpc
Feb 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 6 months
webosmusic-player-clientaudiomusicmusic-player
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