Walter Palmetshofer
CWTFO at Open Knowledge Foundation Germany
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Palmetshofer is a technology and open-data leader with 11+ years of experience spanning sysadmin roots at Ars Electronica and CTO roles in media and art collectives to strategic open-data work at Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. He combines hands-on infrastructure and product founding experience (co‑founder of archify, early technical lead at THE THING) with program-level impact—helping secure €5.5M for an Open Data Incubator and advancing EITI and open data policy. Equally comfortable in activist and startup cultures, he brings a practitioner’s view of how civic tech, media campaigns, and platform engineering intersect. Trained in economics and political science, he leverages policy literacy alongside technical chops to translate complex transparency and data-economics challenges into funded, operational initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
economics & political science, economics & political science at University of ViennaHTL
Github Skills (10)
der10
des10
foundation10
linked-open-data10
web-development9
creative-commons9
nextjs8
open-data3
scoring1
credit1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
okfde/old.okfn.de
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Die alte Webseite der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland.
Contributions:828 commits, 784 pushes in 4 years
dieknowledgederfoundationopen-knowledge
okfde/citylab.berlin
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:15 pushes in 9 months
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