Mathias Köhnke
Managing Director (CEO) & CTO at ALP Software GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMathias Köhnke is a hands-on technology executive and entrepreneur with two decades of software experience and over a decade in senior leadership roles, currently serving as Managing Director & CTO at ALP Software in Hamburg. He combines deep engineering roots—from early roles at IBM, Sun, and Oracle to a Nanodegree in self-driving systems—with strong business acumen shaped by incubator and venture CTO stints at Lab1886, Orbit, and kaayo. Known for user-centric product development and digital transformation, he guides teams through business innovation while practicing lateral leadership and empowerment. Mathias’s background blends corporate-scale architecture and startup velocity, and he brings a rare mix of technical breadth (enterprise systems to autonomous-driving concepts) and strategic entrepreneurship from Harvard Business School Online and WHU programs.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Entrepreneurship Essentials, Certificate in Entrepreneurship Essentials at Harvard Business School OnlineNanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineer, Nanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineer at UdacityLeadership Essentials Program, Leadership Essentials Program at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of ManagementDipl.-Inf. (equiv. to M.Sc.) Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf. (equiv. to M.Sc.) Computer Science at Universität Rostock
English, German
Github Skills (28)
testing10
automated-tests10
swift10
cocoapods10
longpress9
ios9
headless-browser9
browser9
uilabel9
geckodriver8
swift-framework8
javascript8
browserstack8
automation7
phantomjs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mkoehnke/TimeFractionProgressView
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 24 PRs in 11 months
graphsswiftiostemporal
mkoehnke/WKZombie
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
WKZombie is a Swift framework for iOS/OSX to navigate within websites and collect data without the need of User Interface or API, also known as Headless browser. It can be used to run automated tests / snapshots and manipulate websites using Javascript.
Contributions:11 releases, 27 commits, 42 PRs in 6 months
automated-testsheadless-browseriosjavascriptswift-framework
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