Ortwin Gentz
CEO at FutureTap
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarOrtwin Gentz is a Munich-based entrepreneur and iOS developer with 15 years building consumer mobile products, best known as CEO of FutureTap and creator of the long-running Where To? location-finder app first released in 2008. He combines product-led leadership with hands-on engineering—authoring apps like Streets, maintaining the open-source InAppSettingsKit, and contributing image/layout improvements to the widely used fastlane project. His work sits at the intersection of mobility, travel and micro-mobility, with partnerships spanning over 250 navigation and micromobility apps. Beyond tech, he brings local civic engagement as a municipal council member focused on environment and energy, reflecting a practical commitment to sustainable urban mobility.
15 years of coding experience
English, German
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Github Skills (26)
ios10
autolayout10
ruby10
uitableview10
coreanimation10
uikit10
cocoa-touch10
iphone10
image-processing9
animation9
objective-c9
xcode9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fastlane/fastlane
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ortwin primarily contributed to the `frameit` component of the `fastlane` project, focusing on layout and image manipulation for screenshots. Their work included adding features such as `font_scale_factor` and percentage-based padding, and fixing layout issues. They also improved the screenshot resizing process, resulting in performance gains.
fastlaneandroid-appsappsdeploymentreact-native
futuretap/SVProgressHUD
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
A clean and lightweight progress HUD for your iOS app.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
ios-appcleanhudiosprogress-hud
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