Summary
Roger Fischer is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with 11 years of experience building startups and cooperatives across Switzerland, France, the US and Germany, currently based in Zurich. He founded and leads multiple ventures including KAYWA and Datamap, and steers POSMO Genossenschaft’s governance to advance community-controlled mobility data and ethical AI-driven transport solutions. His work spans machine learning, real-time data streaming, computer vision and large-scale mobility tracking, with a particular focus on maps, data visualization and transport mode classification. Roger blends product-facing engineering with community governance and social entrepreneurship, aiming to make mobility data serve the common good rather than just commercial interests. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-border operational experience, which informs pragmatic infrastructure and ethics decisions in multilingual, multi-jurisdictional projects.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer