Johannes Echterhoff
Software Engineer at Open Geospatial Consortium
Greater Bielefeld Area Germany
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Top SchoolJohannes Echterhoff is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in geoinformatics and geospatial web services, currently driving development at interactive instruments GmbH. He combines deep standards expertise—ISO/TC211 and OGC—with hands-on design of service-oriented architectures, Sensor Web Enablement, and event-driven processing. As a long-standing OGC working group co-chair and architect, he bridges standards development and practical implementation, enabling interoperable aeronautical and geographic information systems. His background spans academia and industry, including research roles at the University of Münster and a research stint at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which informs his methodical approach to complex spatial problems. Based in the Greater Bielefeld area, Johannes is known for turning formal geospatial specifications into robust, production-ready services that scale across sensor and aviation domains.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (~Master's degree), Geoinformatics, Diplom (~Master's degree), Geoinformatics at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Stackoverflow
175reputation
391kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (80)
python10
geographic10
raster10
vector10
qgis9
wps9
gdal9
geospatial9
gis9
atom-plugin9
ide-plugin8
osgeo8
ogc8
spatial8
iso8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ShapeChange/google-diff-match-patch
Feb 2016 - Jan 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 10 years
ShapeChange/ShapeChange
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Processing application schemas for geographic information
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 628 commits in 6 years 11 months
pythongeographicschemas
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