Tim Rieber is a data scientist with 11 years of hands-on software and research experience, currently turning complex data into measurable business impact at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He holds an M.Sc. in Informatics from TU Darmstadt and brings a blend of applied machine learning, biometrics research (including co-authored work on synthetic face generation), and practical engineering from roles across journalism, research, and product teams. A software enthusiast and founder-level builder, he also leads engineering at roewaplan and contributes to prominent open-source projects like the Wagtail CMS, where he improved backend copy functionality and admin behavior. Based in Darmstadt, he pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic product focus, favoring well-designed software, skilled teams, and efficient tooling to move experiments into production.
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:22 commits, 12 PRs, 65 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the Wagtail CMS backend by implementing and testing features related to page copying functionality. They added a parent page field to the copy form, adapted and wrote tests, and enabled the ability to change the parent page during the copy process. In addition, they fixed a bug related to admin submenus, and added the site name to the model, form, and index template. Furthermore, they updated documentation and project template content.
Contributions:4 releases, 47 commits, 42 pushes in 3 years
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