Philippe Wagner
Managing Partner at arteria GmbH
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPhilippe Wagner is a Swiss technology entrepreneur and managing partner with 13 years of experience building high-quality web applications and eCommerce solutions from Basel. As CTO and co-founder of arteria GmbH since 2011, he blends hands-on backend engineering with business leadership to deliver production-grade web systems. His open-source contributions to notable Django projects—django-hijack and django-background-tasks—show a focus on robust admin tooling, background job reliability, and pragmatic maintenance like timezone refactors and CI improvements. He began his software career at Schindler, bringing enterprise-grade engineering discipline to agency work. Known for turning practical requirements into maintainable code, he pairs client-facing product sense with deep familiarity in Django backend internals.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Sekundarschule OberwilHMS ReinachFachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
German, English, French
Github Skills (18)
admin10
python10
background-process10
django10
background-processing10
background-worker10
queuing10
custom-ui10
customisation10
background-task10
admin-interface10
queue10
cicd9
web-development9
database-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
django-background-tasks/django-background-tasks
Oct 2014 - Dec 2019
A database-backed work queue for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 91 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the core functionality of the django-background-tasks library. Their work involved version bumps, the addition of a completed task model, and refactoring of timezone-related aspects, addressing potential issues with the task queue. They also adapted the project for use as django-background-tasks and updated documentation, including setting up the travis ci build status. Moreover, they introduced search fields and admin actions for managing background tasks within the Django admin interface.
pythondjangobackground-jobswork-queuequeueing
django-hijack/django-hijack
Oct 2013 - Aug 2020
With Django Hijack, admins can log in and work on behalf of other users without having to know their credentials.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 126 commits, 25 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the Django-based backend logic of the django-hijack project. They implemented the core functionality, specifically the admin interface modifications to enable user hijacking, and added the views and URLs necessary for the hijacking feature. The user also focused on setting up the project's settings, including redirect URLs, and fixed syntax and configuration issues, and bumped the project's version.
django-hijackpythonon-behalf-ofdjangolog-in
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