Matthias Burtscher
CEO Digital Consultant at Fusonic GmbH
Götzis, Vorarlberg, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Burtscher is the CEO and co-founder of Fusonic GmbH with 16 years of experience turning untapped digital potential into practical software solutions. Based in Götzis, Austria, he blends business-focused IT expertise—rooted in studies in Betriebsinformatik and a B.Sc. in economics—with hands-on backend development, evidenced by contributions to the popular oscarotero/Embed project where he improved image retrieval performance and added service adapters. He leads product and engineering efforts at his company while remaining technical enough to optimize libraries, implement parallel requests, and solve MIME-detection challenges. Known for bridging strategic leadership with low-level implementation, he excels at converting complex web integrations into efficient, production-ready features.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Wirtschaftswissenschaften at FernUniversität in HagenBetriebsinformatik, Betriebsinformatik at HTL Dornbirn
German, English
Stackoverflow
478reputation
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2answers
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Github Skills (19)
phpunit10
php10
embed9
webscraper9
scrape9
webscraping9
scraper9
data-scraping9
screen-scraping9
scrapy9
image-processing8
opengraph7
babeljs6
collaboration6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
php-embed/Embed
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Get info from any web service or page
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on enhancing the `embed` library, adding functionalities to retrieve image information using different methods. They implemented a new class using Guzzle5 for image retrieval, optimized it with parallel requests, and improved its efficiency by incorporating `getimagesizefromstring()` for accurate mime-type retrieval. Furthermore, they integrated support for the SassMeister service by adding an adapter to generate embed code, demonstrating a focus on extending the library's capabilities.
webserviceopengraphtwitter-cardsembedsscraping
fusonic/php-ddd-extensions
Apr 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches, 16 tags in 4 years 2 months
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