Ron Drongowski
Director Of Engineering at ZEIT ONLINE
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Drongowski is a seasoned engineering leader with 16+ years at ZEIT ONLINE, progressing from senior web developer to Director of Engineering and shaping backend and technical strategy for a major German news publisher. Trained in media informatics and interdisciplinary media studies, he blends academic rigor and hands-on product engineering—earlier founding a web agency and co-creating the Wolke CMS before "the cloud" era. He excels at scaling newsroom systems and cross-functional teams, translating editorial needs into robust backend platforms and long-lived CMS solutions. Based in Hamburg, he pairs practical teaching experience from FH Bielefeld with deep institutional knowledge of publishing technology. Less obvious: his career roots include frontline reporting and handmade websites, giving him a rare empathy for both content creators and engineers.
16 years of coding experience
Master interdisziplinäre Medienwissenschaft, Master interdisziplinäre Medienwissenschaft at Universität Bielefeld
Github Skills (71)
python10
regression10
visual-testing10
visual-regression-testing10
iot10
raspberry-pi10
mqtt9
home-automation9
backstopjs9
testing9
cms9
automation9
home-assistant9
asyncio9
octopus9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rdrongow/barcode
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
rdrongow/test-me
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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