Vasile Coțovanu
Founder at coalist
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVasile Coțovanu is a founder and seasoned software engineer based in Zurich with over 15 years building location-based and geospatial applications. He has led startups and product teams—from founding webgis.ro and M23 Solutions to engineering roles at local.ch, EBP, Swiss Re and RM Group—bringing domain expertise in GIS, photogrammetry and cartography. Vasile combines hands-on development with product instincts, specializing in translating geographic data and mapping needs into practical, production-ready software. His career blends entrepreneurial drive with enterprise experience across risk, mapping and local services, and he often seeks projects where "geo" is a core conversation. An atypical strength is his long-standing dual perspective as both geodetic-trained practitioner and software founder, enabling pragmatic design decisions grounded in real-world spatial workflows.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, GIS, Photogrammetry, Cartography, Bachelor, GIS, Photogrammetry, Cartography at Technical University Bucharest, Faculty of Geodesy
English, German, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
transport10
simulations10
transit10
public-transport10
sdk9
gtfs9
hosting8
data-gov8
geojson8
nodejs7
javascript7
ruby7
swift6
xcode6
git-svn6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openTdataCH/ojp-demo-app
May 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:108 pushes, 2 branches, 4 comments in 3 years 5 months
openTdataCH/ojp-js
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
OJP Javascript SDK
Contributions:1 review, 229 PRs, 341 pushes in 2 years 4 months
javascriptsdknodejstypescriptjavascript-sdk
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