Patrick Ohnewein
Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Free Software Foundation Europe
Bolzano - Bozen, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Ohnewein is a digital strategist and Chief Digital Officer with 15+ years of experience designing open, sovereign digital ecosystems that connect R&D to real-world industries across SMART Mobility, Tourism, Energy and Food. At NOI Techpark he leads the transition toward European technology stacks and data independence, scaling initiatives like the Open Data Hub and the Free Software Lab to support startups, 80+ companies and a thriving innovation district. A long-standing Free Software advocate and co-founder of the Bolzano Linux User Group, he has shaped policy and community practice through roles with FSFE and as organizer of SFSCON, blending grassroots developer insight with institutional leadership. He is notable for operationalizing open standards and FOSS into enterprise-grade infrastructure—an uncommon combination of activist roots and pragmatic tech transfer. Patrick’s work consistently emphasizes digital sovereignty, ethical data use and open innovation as drivers of regional economic resilience.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (64)
parking9
bus9
notification9
open-data8
web2py7
vue6
event-data6
locate6
authentication6
mobility5
component-store5
opentripplanner5
transport5
python5
integrate5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
noi-techpark/realtimebus
Oct 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 6 months
busnotificationbus-timenotification-systemreal-time
noi-techpark/parkbz
Oct 2014 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
javascriptparkingnodejshtml5html5-application
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