Tobias Bell
Anwendungsentwickler at AXA Konzern AG
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Bell is an experienced Anwendungsentwickler based in Cologne with 17 years at AXA Konzern AG, specializing in document management and SmartFIX solutions. He combines deep enterprise application know-how with hands-on development skills, having implemented backend features and extractors in notable open-source projects like youtube-dl. Tobias also contributes clear, user-focused technical documentation—evident from his tutorials and fixes for the Uberspace lab—showing an aptitude for turning complex setups into accessible guides. His background as a Mathematisch-Technischer Assistent underpins a methodical, detail-oriented approach to parsing and integrating metadata-heavy systems. Colleagues rely on him for steady, maintainable implementations that bridge legacy enterprise needs and practical open-source tooling.
17 years of coding experience
Mathematisch-Technischer Assistent, Mathematisch-Technischer Assistent at AXA Konzern AG
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Github Skills (33)
python10
feature-extraction10
youtube-dl10
guideline10
rs10
extraction10
webscraping10
user-guide10
uberspace10
project-setup10
regular-expression10
video-download10
xml-parsing10
data-extraction10
extractor10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Uberspace/lab
May 2018 - Oct 2022
The Uberlab provides various tutorials - written by you! - on how to run software and tools on Uberspace 7.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on creating and updating documentation for the Uberspace lab project. They added a guide for installing Tiny Tiny RSS, corrected typos, fixed path errors, and made adjustments to existing documentation. Their work primarily involved modifying reStructuredText files to improve clarity and accuracy in the tutorials. The user's contributions centered on providing clear, step-by-step instructions for users to run various software and tools on Uberspace 7.
hostinguberspacelaboratorysetup-guideuberlab
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the `youtube-dl` project by implementing a new extractor for the gameone.de website. They wrote Python code to parse web pages, extract video metadata such as title, description, duration, and age limits, and download video formats. These contributions involved creating a new module and modifying the existing codebase to integrate the functionality for downloading videos from the specified source, including handling different data formats and addressing issues related to metadata extraction.
downloadervideosyoutubeyoutube-dlvideo-sites
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