Volker Runkel
Owner at Freelancing
Weyhe, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVolker Runkel is a biologist-turned-developer and founder with over 15 years of expertise in bat biology and bioacoustics, and more than a decade of hands-on experience building macOS/Apple software and web technologies. As owner of ecoObs he designs field hardware and Apple OS X tools for bat surveying, while also consulting NGOs and governments on acoustic monitoring and conservation. He codes primarily in Cocoa/ObjC, Swift/SwiftUI and web stacks (HTML/CSS/JS), blending scientific rigor with practical product development. With a doctorate in zoology and a background in university teaching and IT administration, he uniquely bridges ecological research, hardware prototyping and production-grade software. Colleagues rely on him for turning novel ecological questions into robust, deployable tools used in the field.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dr., Zoology, Biology, Computer Science, Dr., Zoology, Biology, Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergDiploma, General Biology, Zoology, Ecology, Diploma, General Biology, Zoology, Ecology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
English
Github Skills (2)
flash9
macos6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vrunkel/F3XSwift
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
macOS GUI to the f3 - Fight Flash Fraud - tool and based on F3X
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 29 commits in 1 year
guiflashfightfraudmacos
vrunkel/CoreMLBats-model-calls
Jan 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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