Tim Bartel
Product Lead at Trusted Shops
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTim Bartel is a Product Lead with over a decade of experience shaping digital products, online communities and organizational structures, currently driving product strategy at Trusted Shops from Cologne. He blends a background in business informatics with hands-on leadership in agile product management, owning major consumer-facing components like Trustbadge, widgets and browser extensions. Tim has a long track record building and scaling international teams and volunteer communities at Wikia, where he also established the German office and led multilingual operations across eight top languages. He excels at cross-functional coordination and organizational change, pairing a generalist’s curiosity with strategic, analytical evaluation of emerging technologies. An early adopter and community-focused builder, he repeatedly turns complex international requirements into coherent product and engagement strategies. Beyond product work, his roots in Wikimedia and community development reveal a deep commitment to open, collaborative ecosystems rather than purely transactional growth.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Business informatics, Diploma, Business informatics at University of Cologne
English, German
Stackoverflow
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javascript
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jquery
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Github Skills (89)
mediawiki10
wallpaper10
gerrit10
security10
collaborative-editing10
wikipedia10
matomo10
wikimedia10
intranet10
editing10
marketing10
php10
react10
javascript9
euro9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Wallpaper-Engine-Team/wallpaper-engine-docs
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:141 commits in 2 years 3 months
blackbirdone/training-schedulePHP
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:48 pushes, 7 branches, 2 tags in 1 month
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