Jakob Miksch
Senior Software Engineer at adesso SE
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJakob Miksch is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building management, analysis, and visualization tools for geospatial data, now based in Heidelberg. He combines hands-on development and leadership roles across GIS-focused companies, from research and internships to leading development teams and his current role at adesso SE. Jakob specializes in open technologies and practical solutions for geographic problems, with notable contributions to the widely used GDAL project where he improved documentation and real-world usage examples. His background in applied geoinformatics and geography, plus work on routing and spatial data infrastructures, gives him a rare blend of academic rigor and production-ready engineering. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex spatial questions into clear, usable tools and documentation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Geographie, Bachelor, Geographie at University of InnsbruckGeographie, Geographie at Uppsala universitetMaster, Applied Geoinformatics, Master, Applied Geoinformatics at Universität Salzburg
German, English, Swedish, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
gdal10
geospatial10
spatial-data10
geo10
spatial10
documentation10
vector-math8
raster8
vector8
vuejs26
vue6
openlayers6
vuetify6
css6
vue-i18n6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily contributed to the documentation of the GDAL library. Their work focused on providing examples and updating existing documentation for various GDAL programs and drivers. This included adding practical usage examples for tools like `ogrinfo`, `ogr2ogr`, `gdalwarp`, and `gdal2tiles`, as well as fixing typos and clarifying information about the output formats. These documentation updates improve user understanding and ease of use of the GDAL library.
licensedrasteriogeospatialrasterdata-formats
JakobMiksch/tldr
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
Contributions:8 PRs, 50 pushes, 20 branches in 8 months
consolelinuxbashterminalcommand-line
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