About me
Simon leads the investigative tooling development, including OpenAleph, at the Data and Research Center (DARC). In mid-2023, Simon founded DARC's predecessor, the independent tech organization investigativedata.io. Prior to that, he helped various newsrooms and research teams across Europe to find stories in leaked data and built data pipelines for investigative research. From 2015 to 2019 he worked as a data journalist and newsroom developer at the German non-profit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV. There he built document databases and security infrastructure for award-winning, cross-border and cross-newsroom investigations like "The CumEx Files", "Grand Theft Europe" or "Wem gehört Hamburg". Simon attended journalism school, still writes actual texts (rarely) and was recognized by Medium Magazine as one of the "Top 30 until 30" journalists.
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