Lilith Wittmann
Engineering Manager Strategic Designer Consultant
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLilith Wittmann is a Berlin-based Engineering Manager, Strategic Designer and freelance consultant who blends hands-on software development with architectural strategy and secure digital infrastructure. With 13 years in the field, she has built and led distributed teams, notably establishing Solarisbank's first decentralized credit risk unit of around 10 engineers and guiding ML initiatives and low-code risk solutions. Her current work spans leadership, design systems, and no-code tooling—driving strategic direction across client projects and long‑term platform initiatives, including roles at Jio. As an active open-source contributor, she has hands-on backend work on the komoot/photon geocoder, including Elasticsearch integration and data import workflows. She earned a BA in Sociology and Political Science from FernUniversität in Hagen, highlighting a rare blend of human-centric thinking with technical execution.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Sociology and Political Science, Bachelor's degree, Sociology and Political Science at FernUniversität in Hagen
English, German, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
geocoder10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
postgresql9
database8
databases8
csv6
django-models6
django-forms6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
komoot/photon
May 2014 - May 2014
an open source geocoder for openstreetmap data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Lilith primarily contributed to the back-end components of the project, specifically focusing on integrating with Nominatim for geocoding functionality. Their work involved modifying Elasticsearch configuration for data indexing, adjusting application logic for querying and importing data, and implementing database update processes. They also made changes to Java-based code, suggesting experience with the core functionality of the geocoder.
openstreetmap-datageospatialgeocodingphotonreverse-geocoding
bundesAPI/strukturen
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:110 commits, 9 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 months
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