Valentin Buchhold
Algorithm Engineer at Apple
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolValentin Buchhold is an algorithm engineer based in Zurich with ten years of expertise specializing in map data and routing, currently contributing to Apple Maps' routing team. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from KIT and has published over ten peer-reviewed papers on route planning and ride-pooling, blending deep research with production engineering. At MOIA he led technical strategy for routing, building in-house engines in C++, Rust and Go and deploying them with AWS serverless and Kubernetes to outperform previous third-party solutions. Comfortable across languages and the full stack of routing systems, he brings strong domain knowledge in map and traffic data integration as well as practical experience aligning engineering, product, and external partners. Notably, his early Apple internship work produced an algorithm for partitioning evolving continent-scale road networks that was published at SEA.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, with distinction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, with distinction at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) Karlsruhe
English, German
Github Skills (23)
planning10
astar9
map-matching9
c-library9
cpp9
simulation8
transport8
agent-based-simulation8
simulator7
r7
multi-agent7
aws7
rust6
aws-sdk-rust6
agent6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vbuchhold/routing-framework
May 2016 - Jun 2021
This repository contains C++ source code used in several publications in the area of route planning.
Contributions:291 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
cpprouteplanningroute-planningpublications
vbuchhold/RoutingKit
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
RoutingKit is a C++ library that provides advanced route planning functionality.
Contributions:11 pushes in 4 years 1 month
cppc-libraryc-plus-plusrouteplanning
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