Ulrich Wagner
General Manager at Ulrich B Wagner kommunikation, coaching & strategie
Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolUlrich Wagner is a General Manager and communications strategist with 13 years of professional experience, blending sociological insight from Goethe University Frankfurt with hands-on technical contributions to open-source projects. Based in Offenbach am Main, he runs his own consultancy focused on communication, coaching and strategy, applying a human-centered perspective that prizes humor and contingency tolerance as leadership tools. Technically literate, he has contributed backend fixes and media metadata improvements to notable projects like Mezzanine and Jellyfin, improving robustness around URL handling and MP4 episode extraction. This mix of social-science depth and practical engineering work enables him to translate complex technical issues into relatable strategic guidance for teams and clients.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom Soziologe / Psychologe, Sociology, Diplom Soziologe / Psychologe, Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt
German, English
Github Skills (17)
cms10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
net10
dotnet10
jellyfin10
asp-net10
encoding10
dotnet-core10
web-framework10
backend10
csharp10
git9
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stephenmcd/mezzanine
Oct 2012 - Aug 2014
CMS framework for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ulrich primarily contributed to the Django-based CMS framework, Mezzanine, by fixing bugs and improving code quality. They addressed issues related to URL handling and syntax warnings. The user also prepared the project for integration with django-reversion, adjusted admin configurations, and implemented changes to enable/disable reversion usage. Further contributions included merging updates and adding tests.
cmsdjango
jellyfin/jellyfin
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ulrich focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the Jellyfin project, specifically related to processing and retrieving media metadata, particularly for MP4 files. Their contributions involved modifying the `LibraryManager` class to extract episode information from MP4 files using the `ffprobe` tool and `IMediaEncoder`. They also refactored the code to improve error handling and ensured the correct use of parameters in methods related to extracting media information. These updates contribute to more accurate episode information within the media server.
backendjellyfincsharpdotnet
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