Jakob Wierzba
Developer

I build websites, apps and machines.

Screen shot of byte.fm, smartphone mock-up — Web site front-end, Android+iOS apps and support for internet radio station ByteFM. Advanced audio player. byte.fm

Screen shot of CMS, smarphone mock-up — Part of interkit: reactive app builder aimed at cultural institutions. CMS with interactive fiction graphs, maps, multi-language. interkit.app

App on smartphone — My own art project, combining slit scan, live remote capture and 3D visualisations in a web app. cyfta.com

Screenshot of an app UI with charts, photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, on there a photography app — Two web apps for a City Climate art project. Reactive charts / back-end for photo uploads. creativecoding.city

at the exhibition, iPad and newspapers, tablet mockup — Offline kiosk apps the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig: interactive historical map of Leipzig + video player.

Screenshot of arcade game — An edutainment arcade game. Co-developed with Agentur Kappa for Historisches Technikzentrum Halle. Implemented in Unity with custom controllers.

Home page radioblau.de — Website for Leipzig's public radio station. Complex syncing of live data. radioblau.de

Home page hattenkerl.com — Artist website with custom dedicated CMS. hattenkerl.com

Website muthesius.com — Implementation of an artist website with a portfolio, texts and a blog. muthesius.com

Website SoOderSo/SoWieSo — Portfolio website for a photography class. (archive link)

Screenshot of web app — Web app for gear rental at HGB Leipzig, new version under development…

Skills

Full stack website & web app development
(Vue, Svelte; Node, PHP, Python)
Linux admin, git, Docker
WordPress: themes, plugins, customizations, fix-ups, back-ups, upgrades, speed-ups
Multimedia programming: games (Unity), displays, interactive installations
Audio/video mass processing and archiving, photo editing
Experience with collaborations with non-profit orgs, teams, agencies, institutions, art and culture.

Get in touch for detailed references and consulting.
Please find many examples of my media projects on my art website.

Teaching &Amp; Org

Workshops on content management
2019–21: course on web design @ Martin-Luther-Universität Halle
2021–23: Experimental photography class and Web for Photographers, @ Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin
since 2022: board member of IAPh e.V. running Neuen Schule; organisation and IT

About me

I have been making websites professionally since 2000.
I also make media art, photography, radio
and I blog and podcast about science ficiton.
I value open standards and open source principles.
Photo: Danny Degner

Contact

prog@jakobwierzba.de

+49 176 78694765

Jakob Wierzba
Leberstr. 42
10829 Berlin
Germany

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