Frederik Häfker
Prokura at WhereGroup GmbH
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrederik Häfker is a GIS-focused technology leader with nine years of experience driving Geo-IT projects and teams at WhereGroup GmbH, where he currently holds Prokura and departmental leadership roles in project management and GIS consulting. He blends hands-on technical skills—Python, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, QGIS/GRASS and web mapping—with proven delivery of budgets, schedules and architecture for complex spatial projects. Early career roles across academia, international development and telecom network design give him a rare cross-disciplinary view of geodata, from field mapping to FTTx network planning. An active open-source advocate, he’s a Mapbender PSC member pushing map components forward and champions OSS within his company. Colleagues rely on him for turning ambiguous geo-requirements into operational systems and maintainable architectures. Based in Bonn, he pairs domain expertise in geography with practical engineering and team leadership to scale geospatial solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Geography, Diplom, Geography at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn / University of BonnBachelor (unfinished), Business Information Systems, Bachelor (unfinished), Business Information Systems at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
English, German
Github Skills (11)
gis10
geospatial10
sphinx10
geolocation10
python9
core-module9
spatial9
openlayers7
maps7
javascript7
php7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
fhaefker/MapTelling
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
mapbender/mapbender-documentation
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
Documentation for Mapbender
Contributions:167 commits, 157 PRs, 162 pushes in 2 years 4 months
geoportalgeospatialpythonrstweb-client
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