Thorsten Hell
CEO at cismet GmbH
Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolThorsten Hell is the CEO and co-founder of cismet GmbH, a university spin-off from Saarland focused on designing and implementing complex, sustainable information systems since 2002. With 16 years of industry experience and an M.Sc. from the International Max Planck Research School, he combines rigorous academic grounding in informatics with hands-on leadership of software development. Based in Saarland’s IT-Park, he steers a team versed in database and software design, emphasizing long-term maintainability and sound engineering practices. Known internally as a developer and self-described "nerd," he balances executive responsibilities with active technical involvement, keeping one foot in research-grade methods and the other in practical product delivery.
16 years of coding experience
Dipl. Inf. (FH), Praktische Informatik, Dipl. Inf. (FH), Praktische Informatik at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes SaarbrückenM.Sc., Informatik IMPRS (International Max Planck Research School), M.Sc., Informatik IMPRS (International Max Planck Research School) at Universität des Saarlandes
English
Github Skills (79)
silverstripe10
web-platform10
water10
ansible-collections10
clientside9
testing9
cfml9
cms9
guice9
geojson9
creative-commons9
embedded9
gis9
swing9
angular8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cismet/wupp-topic-maps
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Small, simple maps that connects to the cids system and can be embedded in CMS
Contributions:2003 commits, 4 PRs, 553 pushes in 5 years 8 months
cmsweb-platformcidscfmlsilverstripe
cismet/slackdiary
Apr 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches, 2 issues in 7 years 8 months
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