Helge Fahrnberger
Managing Director & Owner at Bikemap
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolHelge Fahrnberger is a serial founder and product-focused technology leader with 13 years of entrepreneurial experience building mapping and travel software from Vienna. As Managing Director and owner of Maptoolkit and Kulemba (CityMaps2Go), he combines product strategy with hands-on leadership to deliver offline-capable mapping experiences used by millions of travelers. He co-founded Bikemap and previously scaled Tourbook Software to support €25M+ annual bookings before a successful exit, demonstrating an ability to turn geospatial ideas into viable businesses. An active contributor to MapLibre and an angel investor in ContextSDK, he stays engaged with open-source mapping stacks and early-stage geotech ventures. He has taught at both the University of Vienna and FHWien, bringing practical startup lessons into the classroom. Less obvious: he blends long-term platform thinking with a traveler’s sensibility for reliable offline functionality, a niche that informs product decisions across his ventures.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian
Github Skills (109)
tiles10
visual-editor10
mapbox-gl10
geojson10
android-js10
specification10
openmaptiles10
cartography10
tile-server10
maps10
vector-tiles10
vector10
mapbox-gl-js10
geospatial10
geo10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
muesliq/switch2osm
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
muesliq/kobuk.at
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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