Wieland Hoffmann
Senior Software Development Engineer at VECTOR Informatik
Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolWieland Hoffmann is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently driving backend engineering at VECTOR Informatik from Böblingen, Germany. He specializes in backend systems, APIs and data handling, with a strong track record at IBM and long-standing contributions to music and knowledge open-source projects such as MusicBrainz/Picard, ListenBrainz and Spacemacs. Wieland blends pragmatic bug-fixing and refactoring skills with thoughtful API and data-model improvements, and also contributes valuable documentation and test enhancements. His work shows a rare mix of backend depth in production systems and community-focused improvements—helping large open-source projects remain maintainable and user-friendly. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Technische Universität Ilmenau.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Technische Universität Ilmenau
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Github Skills (53)
debugging10
debug10
musicbrainz10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
tagging10
testing10
api-client10
configuration-management10
wikimedia10
metadata10
catalyst10
perl10
flask-ask10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
metabrainz/picard
May 2011 - Jun 2021
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 396 commits, 101 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wieland primarily contributed to the Picard music tagger project by modifying and expanding the functionality of the software. Their work included implementing support for saving language information in ASF files, moving WavPack correction files, and adding new functionality to handle tag name changes within the tag editor. The user also addressed several bugs and refactored existing code to improve overall program quality.
pythonpicardaudio-fileacoustidmusicbrainz
metabrainz/musicbrainz-server
Apr 2011 - Jul 2016
Server for the MusicBrainz project (website, API, database tools)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Wieland primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the MusicBrainz server, modifying Perl code and database interactions. Their work included improvements to error messages, modifications to email notifications, and adjustments to data handling. The user also worked on JavaScript code related to URL cleanup functionality and integrating updates from solr. In addition, they added events to the timeline.
apireactmysqlmusicbrainzdatabase-api
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