David Kokkelink
Co-Founder & CEO at Datawrapper
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarDavid Kokkelink is a founder-led technology executive with 11 years of experience building product-focused B2B and SaaS software, currently serving as Co-Founder & CEO of Datawrapper in Berlin. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from an early NLP/AI startup launched at TechCrunch Disrupt—with operator experience scaling a data visualization product used by publishers and organizations. Comfortable bridging product, design and engineering, he has a track record of turning complex data needs into simple, reliable tools and shipping them to market. His background as a freelancer across diverse companies gives him practical empathy for customers and pragmatic delivery practices that keep product development grounded.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (47)
visualization10
charts10
svelte-component10
embeddable10
data-visualization10
render9
amazon9
api9
node-api9
js8
polyfills8
amazon-s38
nodejs8
oembed7
minecraft7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
datawrapper/chart-core
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
Svelte component to render charts. Used by frontend app and Node API.
Contributions:51 reviews, 220 commits, 97 PRs in 1 year 11 months
renderchartsapichartsvelte
datawrapper/plugin-options
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
set of option types that can be used by visualization plugins
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 9 months
optionpluginvisualization
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