Christoph Lingg
Co-founder at komoot GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChristoph Lingg is a Berlin-based co-founder and engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing and data-driven products, best known for founding komoot, a popular route-planning app that scales outdoor discovery for millions. With a physics background from TUM and studies in Paris and Madrid, he blends analytical rigor with practical product instincts, having earlier built and exited Vokker, a leading language-learning platform in Central Europe. Technically hands-on, he contributes to open-source geocoding work such as komoot/photon, focusing on backend and multilingual data management for OSM-based search. He combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep backend and database engineering skills, often tackling data import, testing, and internationalization challenges that sit at the intersection of product and infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
diploma thesis, physics, diploma thesis, physics at Universidad Autónoma de MadridDiplom, physics, 1.2, Diplom, physics, 1.2 at Technische Universität MünchenM1, physics, M1, physics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
German, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (36)
openstreetmap10
memory-leaks10
python10
geocoder10
formatting10
java10
javas10
jupyter-notebook10
amazon-elasticsearch9
postgresql9
pandas9
json9
debugging9
pytest9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
komoot/photon
Aug 2013 - Oct 2020
an open source geocoder for openstreetmap data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 350 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christoph's commits primarily involve the Java-based implementation and modification of the `InternationalCountryName` class, indicating work on core back-end logic related to geocoding and data import. Their changes include initializing and maintaining a database of country names in multiple languages, suggesting a focus on data management within the context of the geocoder project. Furthermore, code diffs reveal the user's involvement in modifying CSV readers and Solr test classes, indicating a contribution in testing and data import/export related aspects.
openstreetmap-datageospatialgeocodingphotonreverse-geocoding
komoot/staticmap
Aug 2015 - Feb 2021
A small, python-based library for creating map images with lines, markers and polygons.
Contributions:47 commits, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 years 6 months
polygonspythonlinesmap-editormapbox
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