Takara Baumbach

Takara Baumbach (MA, Dipl.-Ing.(BA)) is a Software Developer at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), part of the GIScience Research Group at the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg.

Projects

Openrouteservice.org, an open source route planner based on user-generated, collaboratively collected free geographic data from OpenStreetMap.

Short CV

• 11/2016 – 03/2019
  Software Developer / Research Advisor at Heidelberg University Language and Cognition Lab (https://www.hulclab.eu/)
• 08/2014 – 10/2016
  Software Developer at maxment GmbH, Heidelberg
• 2005 – 2015
  Freelance Software Developer in different web and software projects
• 10/2004 – 07/2009
  Software Developer / Research Assistant at Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprachenphilologie, Universität Heidelberg
• 10/2003 – 09/2016
  Magister Artium (MA) in Philosophy / Japanese Studies at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Thesis: Egologie und jigaron - Probleme und Chancen einer transkulturellen Philosophie des Ich
• 10/2000 – 09/2003
  Dipl.-Ing.(BA) (BSc) in Information Technology Engineering at Berufsakademie Mannheim; Trainee at IBM Deutschland, Mainz, Internship at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY