Benedikt Hitz-gamper
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Institut Public Sector Transformation (IPST)
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedikt Hitz-gamper is a research-oriented systems engineer with nine years of experience building federated Linked Open Government Data infrastructures and driving the organisational change needed for public-sector reuse of harmonised data. Based in Bern, he combines hands-on systems engineering work at Lambda-Pi and SBB with applied research and teaching roles at the Institut Public Sector Transformation and Universität Bern, linking technical design to policy and practice. His background in physics, mathematics, informatics and a doctorate in Wirtschaftsinformatik gives him a rare blend of formal analytic thinking and practical implementation skills. Comfortable with algorithms and natural language technologies, he focuses on interoperable data models and pragmatic tooling that make open data genuinely reusable across administrations. As a father and educator he brings patience and clear communication to interdisciplinary teams, smoothing the social side of technical change.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. oec., Wirtschaftsinformatik, Dr. rer. oec., Wirtschaftsinformatik at Universität Bern
Github Skills (14)
python9
kubernetes9
linked-data5
open-data5
csv4
visualization4
government-data4
datatypes4
rdf3
open-government3
web-frontend2
data-visualization2
data-catalog2
respec1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bequrios/flader
Oct 2023 - Jun 2026
Flask dereferencer for https://ld.admin.ch
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
swiss/paf-link
Nov 2023 - Sep 2025
Public Affairs Schema
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 133 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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