Thorsten Reitz
CEO Founder at wetransform gmbh
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolThorsten Reitz is a seasoned software leader and founder with 17 years of experience building products, teams and research-driven solutions at the intersection of geospatial data and standards. As CEO and founder of wetransform he leads product and talent strategy for tools (hale studio, hale connect, INSPIRE GIS) that make standards design and data transformation fast and data-driven. His background includes leading R&D and product engineering for 3D GIS at Esri and heading spatial information management at Fraunhofer IGD, where he secured large project portfolios and scaled teams. Known for turning multi-year, cross-disciplinary efforts into practical software, he blends hands-on engineering, product management and academic teaching experience. Based in Zurich, he’s actively recruiting mission-driven engineers who value continuous improvement and trust.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Informatik, M.Sc. Informatik at Hochschule Furtwangen
English, German, French
Github Skills (53)
database-access10
groovy10
java10
spatial-data10
scala10
etl10
etl-framework10
eclipse-rcp10
specification10
xml10
spatial10
gml10
transformation10
database10
3d9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wetransform-os/geopackage-end
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
GeoPackage Template Development for European Noise Directive Reporting
Contributions:1 PR, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
geopackage
wetransform/inspire-extensions
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
Extending INSPIRE Models - Guidance
Contributions:21 PRs, 133 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
guidanceinspire
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