Bastian Kneissl is an entrepreneur and product leader with 12 years of experience building consumer and IoT mobility products, currently developing next-generation smart eBikes with Bosch to advance Vision Zero. He founded and scaled MapCase into one of Europe’s largest outdoor GPS tracking platforms and rebuilt the business after a hostile takeover to achieve seven-digit sales and breakeven within a year. He later launched MountLytics, a Guest Intelligence (Guest Gen AI) solution that automated personalized content for enterprise customers. Hands-on as a mobile and cloud developer, he contributes to notable open-source projects like airbnb/lottie-ios, managing Swift Package and iOS build compatibility. Combining product ownership, venture-building experience and a passion for outdoor sports, he blends technical execution with commercial strategy to create highly scalable IoT mobility business models. Based in Essen, Germany, he brings a resilience forged in competitive sports to tackle complex product and market challenges.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Business Administration, Diploma Business Administration at University of Applied Science Aschaffenburg
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Bastian primarily updated the project's `Package.swift` file, which defines the Swift Package Manager configuration. The updates involve excluding specific MacOS-related files and directories and adjusting the swift-tools-version and iOS platform versions. These changes suggest the user is managing dependencies and project structure for the Lottie library, ensuring compatibility and build configuration, specifically for iOS.
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