Tobias Gurtzick
CEO at wzrdtales
Greater Dusseldorf Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarTobias Gurtzick is a seasoned technology leader and serial founder with over a decade of professional experience and more than two decades of hands-on programming, currently leading multiple ventures including WizardTales, WX-ONE, and RYSKEX GmbH. He combines deep expertise in security, networking, Linux, and DevOps with practical backend and database engineering—evidenced by contributions to the widely used node-db-migrate project where he improved MySQL driver behavior, foreign key handling, and test reliability. As an open source evangelist and frequent contributor, Tobias balances architecture and implementation, shipping resilient systems while guiding product and platform strategy. He also writes and creates music in his spare time, bringing a creative perspective to technical problem solving. Based in the Greater Düsseldorf area, he’s known for turning complex infrastructure challenges into auditable, secure solutions for diverse clients.
11 years of coding experience
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
mysql10
databases10
database10
foreign-keys9
database-management8
database-schema8
db-schema8
database-design8
nodejs8
schema8
database-migration6
sql6
jsf6
docker6
java6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
db-migrate/node-db-migrate
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
Database migration framework for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:13 releases, 4 reviews, 874 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias's contributions focused on database-related operations and backend functionality within the node-db-migrate framework. They made modifications to the MySQL driver, including altering table structure and handling foreign key constraints. Additional work involved testing and ensuring proper database interactions, particularly within the MySQL testing framework. They also resolved issues related to case sensitivity in database table names and improved exception handling.
migration-toolmysqlnodejsdatabasedatabase-migration
wzrdtales/david-www
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
dependenciesjs-projectkeepnode-jsjavascript
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