Niklas Hösl
CTO & Co-Founder at Chargeprice
Greater Graz Austria
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Top SchoolNiklas Hösl is a CTO and co-founder with 11 years of engineering experience who built Chargeprice’s backend and data integrations from scratch to create Europe’s leading e-mobility price comparison platform serving over 200,000 users. He combines deep backend expertise from scaling Runtastic’s social infrastructure to millions of users with a formal MSc in Mobile Computing and hands-on app development across Windows and mobile platforms. Passionate about sustainable mobility and an EV driver since 2019, he turned a personal insight into a product that makes EV charging more transparent and accessible. Comfortable moving between product, data ingestion, and system architecture, he stays deeply involved in engineering while steering growth. His background also includes tutoring Java and building mission-critical tooling for rescue and public services, highlighting a practical, service-oriented approach to software. Based in Greater Graz, Austria, he enjoys discussing startups, tech, and the future of mobility.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Mobile Computing, Master of Science (MSc) Mobile Computing at Hagenberg Campus - FH Upper AustriaMatura Informatik, Matura Informatik at HTBLA Kaindorf/Sulm
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chargeprice/open-ev-data
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
Previously Open Dataset of Electric Vehicle specs. Now part of the Chargeprice API!
Contributions:72 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 2 years 8 months
datasetspecsvehicleelectricopen-dataset
chargeprice/chargeprice-api-docs
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Documentation for 3rd party applications to communicate with the Chargeprice API.
Contributions:2 reviews, 91 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
communicateapiparty3rd-party
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