Niklas Schöllhorn
Referent Autonomes Fahren Im Öffentlichen Nahverkehr at Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNiklas Schöllhorn is an expert in autonomous driving and sustainable mobilities with 11 years of experience, currently shaping policy and pilots for automated buses in public transport at the Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg. He manages the RABus real-world laboratory end-to-end—from funding and project delivery to technical, legal and economic assessment—and crafts practical deployment guidance for integrating autonomous shuttles into existing networks. With a Master’s in Sustainable Mobilities and a Bosch master’s thesis demonstrating nuanced last-mile feasibility and acceptance insights, he blends rigorous research with hands-on program leadership. He also contributes backend improvements to open-source projects like doctrine/collections, applying type-safe PHP practices that reflect a software-minded attention to maintainability. Based in Münster, he brings a rare combination of policy, operational delivery and technical coding experience to advance autonomous public transit.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Sustainable Mobilities, 1,5, Master of Science - MS, Sustainable Mobilities, 1,5 at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU)Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, 2,7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, 2,7 at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
German, English
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Github Skills (17)
doctrine10
sa10
data-structure10
typehinting10
php10
collections10
data-structures10
type-checking10
ps10
jpa6
repository-pattern6
hibernate6
orm6
laravel-migration6
laravel6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/collections
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Collections Abstraction Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Niklas focused on enhancing the codebase by adding Psalm annotations and introducing template parameters to improve type safety and code maintainability. They also updated Psalm versions and removed unnecessary annotations. The changes involved modifying the `Collection` and `ArrayCollection` interfaces and classes within the doctrine/collections repository, showcasing expertise in data structures and type-safe coding practices. Further, the user adjusted phpdoc and return types for clearer documentation.
javaabstractionabstraction-librarycollections
nschoellhorn/gdrivefs-rust
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Linux FUSE filesystem to emulate Google Drive File Stream
Contributions:2 reviews, 72 commits, 27 PRs in 7 months
filestreamfilesystemlinux
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