Robin Boldt
Geschäftsführer at Kurviger
Stuttgart Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Boldt is a founder and Geschäftsführer with 12 years of software engineering experience, best known for creating Kurviger, a motorcycle-focused route planner that favors curves and hills while avoiding cities and highways. He combines product leadership with hands-on engineering, owning backend routing logic and frontend UX improvements to make route planning fast and delightful for riders. An active open-source contributor, Robin has improved motorcycle routing in the widely used GraphHopper engine and fixed stability issues in the Leaflet.markercluster plugin. Based in the Stuttgart region, he brings practical web-application experience from startups and industrial environments, plus early academic research at the University of Stuttgart. His work shows a rare blend of user-centered product design and deep routing algorithm expertise, including curvature-aware weighting for better motorcycle routes.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Abitur, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Abitur, Computer Science at Universität Stuttgart
German, English
Github Skills (15)
openstreetmap10
mappings10
javas10
routing-slip10
debug10
javascript10
routes10
clustering10
leaflet10
java10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
graphhopper/graphhopper
Sep 2015 - Oct 2022
Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 191 commits, 181 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the backend code, specifically within the `MotorcycleFlagEncoder` class. The user implemented improvements to motorcycle routing, introducing options like bendiness values and curvature weighting, along with various bug fixes. Additionally, they fixed a type in the same class and added a test case to assess curvature-based routing. The user also integrated the new `CurvatureWeighting` class.
nominatimmap-matchinggraphhopperpublic-transportationosrm
Leaflet/Leaflet.markercluster
May 2018 - May 2018
Marker Clustering plugin for Leaflet
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Leaflet marker clustering plugin. They addressed a bug related to chunked loading and zoom interactions, showcasing the problem with a dedicated example. Furthermore, the user made code improvements by fixing style issues. These changes involved refactoring and enhancing existing components within the project.
leafletpolygonsmarkermarkersleaflet-plugins
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