Philipp Kölmel
Chief Technology Officer at Nect GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Kölmel is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Hamburg with 15+ years of experience building product-led engineering organisations across startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from C/C++ game backends and anti-cheat systems to cloud infrastructure and ML delivery—with proven leadership in hiring, team design and rapid product iteration. His career includes pivotal roles at ESL, Bigpoint (through acquisition by Yoozoo), FREE NOW and recent startups Helsing and Qubit9, where he scaled teams, delivered production iterations in weeks, and shaped technical strategy. Philipp is user-obsessed: he frames leadership as the work of cultivating mindsets that produce happy customers and measurable product outcomes. He’s skilled at pragmatic trade-offs—driving down costs (50% reductions at Bigpoint) while launching complex systems like high-throughput platforms, payments and real-time matchmaking. Outside core roles he experiments with game design and rapid prototyping, reflecting a blend of product curiosity and deep operational experience.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH) Accounting and Computer Science, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH) Accounting and Computer Science at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
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Github Skills (27)
modals8
widgets7
dragula7
datepicker7
sortable6
quake6
daterangepicker6
typeahead6
bootstrap6
angular5
popover5
source-engine5
collapse5
dynamic-forms5
ivy4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
philippkoelmel/arcgis-threejs-externalrenderer
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
philippkoelmel/JoeQuake
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Quake engine mod targeted for speedrunning
Contributions:32 pushes, 5 comments, 16 issues in 15 days
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