Benjamin Kickhöfer
Product Domain Lead at Einride
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kickhöfer is a Product Domain Lead with 11 years of experience building transport and mobility software that turns advanced simulation and optimization research into production-grade planning tools. He has led product and technical efforts at Einride and in academic settings, shipping cloud-native services and automated QA for optimization algorithms that power data-driven freight planning. With a PhD in simulation and optimization of transport networks and a background in agent-based modeling (MATSim), he bridges deep technical expertise and product strategy to reduce costs and environmental impact. Colleagues describe him as a proactive planner and integrator who builds collaborative teams—an approach shaped by his mountaineering habit of meticulous preparation and trust in teammates. He combines hands-on algorithmic know-how with experience securing funding and scaling cross-functional teams, making him effective at turning complex research into usable commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School Development of mobility concepts for the Olympic Games, Summer School Development of mobility concepts for the Olympic Games at Tsinghua UniversityResearch Fellowship Integrating GTFS and smartcard data into a transport simulation, Research Fellowship Integrating GTFS and smartcard data into a transport simulation at Universidad de ChileThe University of MelbourneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Simulation and optimization of transport networks, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Simulation and optimization of transport networks at Technische Universität BerlinExchange Program Supply chain management Economics of innovation, Exchange Program Supply chain management Economics of innovation at EPFL
English, German, French, Swedish
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Github Skills (8)
simulation10
multi-agent10
simulator10
agent-based-simulation10
transport10
agent9
conventions4
software-quality4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
benkick/fleet-modeling
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
einride/conventions
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Conventions for how we build quality software
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
conventionssoftware-qualityquality
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