Hinrich Paulsen
Co-founder & CTO at ESMERALDA SAS
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHinrich Paulsen is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 12+ years of experience building geospatial and consulting businesses from Bonn, Germany. As Co-founder & CTO of Esmeralda and senior consultant at terrestris and mundialis, he blends technical leadership with product-minded consulting across open-source geospatial ecosystems. His background as a Diplom-Geograph underpins a pragmatic approach to spatial data challenges, turning complex geographic requirements into deployable systems. Hinrich has repeatedly launched and scaled companies and services, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and hands-on engineering. He is motivated by long-term societal challenges—reflected in his current pet project Esmeralda—and brings a strategic, mission-driven perspective to technology choices. A former platoon commander, he also brings operational discipline and team leadership forged outside typical tech pathways.
11 years of coding experience
Diplom-Geograph, Geografie, 1,15, Diplom-Geograph, Geografie, 1,15 at Uni Bonn
Github Skills (26)
doi6
grass6
zenodo6
actinia6
backend5
rest-api5
gis5
earth-observation5
geospatial4
php4
api4
geospatial-analysis4
rest3
java2
shogun2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
terrestris/momo3
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:23 PRs, 32 pushes, 23 comments in 1 year 1 month
momophase
terrestris/momo3-backend
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
phpmomobackendphasebmbf
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