Timo Richert
Application Engineering Manager
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTimo Richert is an Application Engineering Manager based in Cologne with a 14+ year background in energy engineering and eight years focused on leading technical teams and project delivery. He has driven engineering, techno-economic optimization and product development across solar, heat pumps, and green hydrogen, and recently moved from solutions development at Lhyfe to managing application engineering at Heaten. At Climeworks he led FEED studies and the technical bid package for pioneering Direct Air Capture projects, blending process engineering rigor with hands-on plant execution. His experience spans from software-enabled plant simulation to CAPEX/OPEX modelling, reflecting strong systems-thinking across hardware, controls, and commercial metrics. Colleagues describe him as a multidisciplinary leader who translates complex energy concepts into executable projects and improved internal processes. Outside core roles he’s consistently pursued practical renewables innovation, moving from solar early in his career into heat pumps and green hydrogen applications.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Energy Technology, Energy Technology at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDiploma (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) Industrial Engineering / Economics, Diploma (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) Industrial Engineering / Economics at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (24)
energy10
documented10
renewable-energy10
solar-energy10
photovoltaic10
genetic-algorithm9
simulation9
python9
evolutionary-algorithms9
genetic9
pygad9
agent-based-modeling8
financial7
modelica7
optimization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pvyield/pvy-api
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
pvyield RESTful API service
Contributions:1 PR, 84 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
apipythonrestfulrestrest-api
NADIROENERGY/nadiro-api-test
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
api-testtestingapitest-environment
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