Steffen Schaefer
Head Of Future Cities And Mobility at Flying Kiwi Angels
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSteffen Schaefer is a seasoned mobility and smart cities leader with nine years in senior roles and over two decades of technology and consulting experience spanning IBM, Siemens, and AFRY. As Head of Future Cities and Mobility at AFRY he advises Charge Point Operators, automotive and logistics firms, ports, airports and investors on market entry, decarbonization and tech-enabled due diligence, linking strategy to AFRY’s global engineering capabilities. His background blends hands-on IoT, AI and platform development with product and innovation management—from building MaaS platforms at Siemens to early secure-trade-lane sensor systems at IBM. He also invests as an angel and consults on digital transformation, bringing a pragmatic mix of corporate scale-up know-how and startup curiosity. Based in the Greater Munich area, he pairs formal studies at MIT and FH Furtwangen with practical nanodegrees in smart cities and Python, and maintains private machine-learning and game-development projects in institutional GitLabs. An unusual strength is his track record of converting government and complex public-sector pain points into deployable innovation programs.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Max-Planck-Gymnasium, LahrCoursera Nanodegrees on Python, Coursera Nanodegrees on Python at Michigan State UniversityBeyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology, Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree (Diplom-Informatiker FH) Business Informatics, Master's Degree (Diplom-Informatiker FH) Business Informatics at Hochschule FurtwangenNanodegrees on Smart Cities / Managing City Infrastructure, Nanodegrees on Smart Cities / Managing City Infrastructure at EPFL
English, German, French
Github Skills (18)
scene-text9
lstm8
latin8
image-processing8
arabic8
data-mining7
optical-character-recognition7
cyrillic7
deep-learning6
devanagari6
ocr6
information-retrieval6
machine-learning6
python6
pytorch6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
iblub1/Statistical-Machine-Learning-Exercises
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
iblub1/Tactical
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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