Ralf Kernchen
Founder And CEO at Reserve & Charge Limited
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRalf Kernchen is a founder and CEO with 9 years of experience turning startup ideas into production software, currently leading Reserve & Charge and Accelogress from Guildford, UK. He combines hands-on full‑stack app development, native and cross‑platform mobile expertise, and cloud-native hosting with DevOps practices to deliver scalable, secure products. A PhD in Mobile Communications and a background in EU-funded IoT and V2X research at the University of Surrey give him uncommon depth in connected systems and transport technology. He has a track record of commercialising research into practical solutions, particularly in transport and parking domains, and has co-founded earlier ventures including balena. Colleagues describe him as an operator who bridges research, product and engineering to move concepts into working, hosted services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinPhD, Mobile Communications, PhD, Mobile Communications at University of Surrey
German, English
Github Skills (18)
cocoapods10
file-metadata8
mediainfo7
media6
websocket-client5
emscripten5
ios-library5
javascript5
objective-c4
audio-files4
fiware4
audio4
webassembly3
ios3
cratedb3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
crowdconnected/colocator-ios
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
The CrowdConnected Colocator iOS library
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 8 months
ios-libraryios
kernchen/AnimatedTextInput
May 2023 - Aug 2025
Animated UITextField and UITextView replacement for iOS
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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