Julian Psotta
Product Manager Smart Mobility at HeiGIT
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJulian Psotta is a product manager specializing in smart mobility with nine years of experience blending hands-on software development, entrepreneurship, and GIS expertise from Heidelberg, Germany. He currently shapes mobility products at HeiGIT while maintaining a long-standing freelance practice and co-founding multiple tech ventures that focus on geospatial solutions. His background as a software engineer for openrouteservice and founder roles at GIS‑OPS and Arborex reflect deep domain knowledge in routing, spatial data, and open-source tooling. Julian pairs a Master of Science from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with practical delivery experience, able to move projects from prototype to production and balance user needs with technical constraints. Notably, he combines product leadership with developer instincts—often stepping into code and architecture decisions to accelerate outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Universität GreifswaldMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergAbitur, Abitur at Freie Waldorfschule Stade
Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (105)
photon10
public-transportation10
traveling-salesman10
dijkstra10
solver10
pickup10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
vue2leaflet10
matrix10
wordpress10
astar10
api10
geocoding10
nominatim10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GIScience/ohsome-qgis-plugin
Jun 2020 - May 2022
ohsome Qgis plugin
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 23 commits in 1 year 11 months
pythonqgis-pluginohsomepluginqgis
GIScience/photon
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
an open source geocoder for openstreetmap data
Contributions:55 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
openstreetmapnominatimgeospatialgeocoderastar
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