Oliver Wipfli
Founder And Owner at Leichter als Luft GmbH
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Wipfli is a founder and software engineer based in Zurich with six years of professional experience bridging research-grade physics and real-time mapping technologies. After completing a Doctor of Science in Physics at ETH Zürich, he moved into applied software roles including an internship at NVIDIA and coordinating contributions to the open-source MapLibre project, where he worked on mobile (iOS/Android) map rendering and documentation for a widely used vector-tile library. As founder of Leichter als Luft GmbH he combines product-building with hands-on engineering, particularly around live geospatial data—an interest reflected in his GitHub focus on interactive maps and real-time assets. He brings a researcher's rigor to engineering problems, shipping practical examples, improving specs, and even contributing documentation and test application improvements. An avid hot-air balloon pilot, he uniquely blends a love of real-world navigation with deep technical expertise in mapping stacks.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Exchange Year, Physics, Erasmus Exchange Year, Physics at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Science, Physics, Doctor of Science, Physics at ETH ZürichBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Github Skills (13)
mobile10
typescript10
javascript10
ios10
maplibre-gl10
typescripts10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
android10
mapbox-gl10
typescript-types10
android-development9
documentation9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
maplibre/maplibre-native
May 2022 - Jan 2023
MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:158 reviews, 49 commits, 104 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed by updating and referencing the style specification documentation, updating example code and using URLs from the MapLibre documentation. The changes also included use of specific URLs related to image assets. The user also added the rust book for documentation and made some changes to the test application.
mapbox-android-sdkmaplibre-glmaplibremapboxmapbox-gl
wipfli/swiss-map
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 144 commits, 170 pushes in 5 months
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