Péter Király
Software Developer at GWDG - Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolPéter Király is a software developer with 14+ years’ experience building search and digital library systems that power cultural heritage and research portals across Europe and beyond. He has led backend development for major projects such as the Europeana portal and contributed searchable platforms for Project Gutenberg, ALA, FTC and the Hungarian Electronic Library, combining Java, Solr/Lucene, Spring, MongoDB and related tooling. Comfortable in both engineering and analysis, he has implemented OAI-PMH toolkits, Drupal integration for FRBR/RDA-aware discovery, and test automation work on projects like the widely used Dataverse repository. Based in Göttingen, he blends humanities training (MA in History, PhD-level comparative studies) with practical software craft—an uncommon mix that informs robust metadata and search designs. Péter’s work often focuses on making large text corpora discoverable and interoperable, and he brings deep domain knowledge in semantic web technologies and digital curation to every project.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Comparative Studies (General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies), summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Comparative Studies (General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies), summa cum laude at The University of GöttingenMaster of Arts (MA), History, Master of Arts (MA), History at Miskolci Egyetem
English, Latin, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (9)
bibtex10
javas10
junit10
java10
dataverse10
testing10
graph6
traversal6
documentation5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 134 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Péter primarily worked on the DataCitationTest class, adding comprehensive tests for public methods, including testing BibTeX and RIS string generation with and without author and title information. They also refactored code to support the testing of BibTeX and other metadata formats. The contributions indicate a focus on ensuring the accurate representation of dataset metadata across various formats, including BibTeX, RIS, and EndNote. Furthermore, the commits also involved removing a broken link from the documentation.
data-repository
pkiraly/marc4j
Jan 2018 - Nov 2025
Git repository initially imported from the Tigris CVS repo as of 2013.01.25
Contributions:5 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 10 months
cvstigrisgit-repository
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