Patrick Niklaus
Fouding Engineer at Kale AI
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Niklaus is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 19 years of experience designing scalable routing, maps, and delivery platforms from research prototypes to production. Based in Berlin, he built and led routing teams at Mapbox and rideOS, shaped the OSRM-based Directions stack, and helped integrate diverse map and traffic data for real-time route optimization. He combines deep algorithmic chops (map matching, HMMs, accelerated routing) with hands-on systems engineering and developer tooling, then transitioned to management and founding roles focused on product delivery. Known for turning academic robotics and simulation experience into practical infrastructure, he thrives on optimizing complex, heterogeneous systems end-to-end.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English
Github Skills (176)
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traveling-salesman10
dijkstra10
ruby10
proto10
maven10
extensible10
cpp10
backend10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
offline-maps10
jar10
astar10
nominatim10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
TheMarex/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 6 branches in 10 years 1 month
mapbox/osrm-isochrone
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Generate drivetime isochrones from OpenStreetMap data using OSRM
Contributions:9 PRs, 8 pushes, 15 comments in 1 year 6 months
openstreetmapisochronesosmosrmopenstreetmap-data
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