Sebastian Majstorovic
Founder & CEO at Datovis
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Majstorovic is a founder and data-driven historian who blends a decade of technical and research experience to make “stories” visible in messy datasets. As CEO of Datovis and Technical Director of the Data Rescue Project he builds open-data pipelines, preservation systems, and visualizations that serve open-source AI and cultural heritage communities. He consults for EleutherAI on dataset curation and advises academic projects like CAPASIA, bringing scholarly rigor from his research background in Central European history. Trained at the European University Institute, UCL and Queen Mary, he pairs digital humanities expertise with full-stack development roots to bridge archives and production software. Based in Cologne, he’s known for translating archival complexity into reusable open infrastructures—an unusual mix of librarian sensibility and startup delivery.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Research History, Master of Research History at European University InstituteBA History and Film Studies, BA History and Film Studies at Queen Mary University of LondonUniversity College London
German, English, French, serbian/croatian/bosnian, Italian
Github Skills (66)
datasets10
tesseract10
lstm10
ocr-engine10
ocr10
aws10
auth9
firebase9
machine-learning9
database8
hugo8
postgresql8
realtime8
jekyll8
supabase8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
storytracer/tempopedia-directory
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:241 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
storytracer/common-pile
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Repo to hold code and track issues for the collection of permissively licensed data
Contributions:58 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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