Gregor Aisch
Senior Visual Data Journalist
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGregor Aisch is a Senior Visual Data Journalist with 15 years of experience at the crossroads of data, design, and engineering, currently working at DIE ZEIT after a recent stint at ZEIT ONLINE. He co-founded Datawrapper and led its product and technical direction, bringing newsroom-focused tooling from prototype to production while previously shaping visual storytelling as Graphics Editor at The New York Times. Gregor blends full-stack engineering skills—evident from core contributions to mapping libraries like kartograph.py, chroma.js, and analytics tooling in Matomo—with a deep sense for editorial clarity and audience-facing visuals. He has shipped both back-end systems (APIs, map projections, comment backends) and polished front-end demos, and his open-source footprint shows a preference for practical libraries that power data visualization across newsrooms. Based in Berlin with a degree in Computational Visualistics, he pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with hands-on coding, often surfacing non-obvious trade-offs between visual fidelity and performance in production.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computational Visualistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computational Visualistics at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
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Github Skills (49)
fastify10
javascript10
sqlite10
color-theory10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
api-design10
sphinx10
django10
rgba10
css10
databases10
better-sqlite310
php10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kartograph/kartograph.py
Jan 2012 - May 2017
UNMAINTAINED! Renders beautiful SVG maps in Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:304 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gregor's contributions focused on implementing core features and functionalities within the `kartograph.py` project, specifically related to map projections, layer handling, and SVG rendering. Their commits indicate the development of various map projections, data processing with shapefile handling, and the construction of the SVG output, reflecting a primary focus on the back-end logic that powers the map generation process. The commits show that the user was responsible for building the base for different map components and handling layer data.
pythonsvg
schn4ck/schnack
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
🗣️ Simple self-hosted node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static websites
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 341 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gregor appears to be primarily responsible for the initial back-end development of the schnack application, a self-hosted commenting system. The user's contributions include setting up the server, defining the database schema, and implementing comment posting and retrieval functionalities. They integrated Fastify and SQLite3 for the back-end, demonstrating an understanding of back-end architecture and database interactions. Additionally, the user implemented basic Twitter authentication.
disqusnode-appnodejscommentingdisqus-clone
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