Theodor Foerster
Software Development Manager at SAP
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTheodor Foerster is a software development manager at SAP with 18 years of experience blending enterprise software engineering, product ownership, and geoinformatics research. He leads teams that modernize SAP’s digital core for logistics, CRM and IoT, translating intelligent technologies into customer-ready innovation while ensuring operational continuity. His background includes running a Sensor Web and Web-based Geoprocessing lab and earning a PhD on on-demand map architectures, giving him deep domain expertise in enterprise GIS and spatial web services. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product delivery, he has moved from hands-on software architecture to strategic leadership without losing a developer’s attention to scalable design. Based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area, he brings a pragmatic academic perspective to large-scale SAP products and a persistent interest in meaningful generalization for spatial data.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at University of TwenteDipl. Geo.-Inf., Dipl. Geo.-Inf. at University of Münster
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (82)
python10
wps10
standardized10
eclipse10
ogc10
mqtt10
home-automation10
java10
iot10
geotools10
geo10
gis10
raspberry-pi10
deprecated10
telegram-bot9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oldgitdaddy/hdec
Nov 2022 - Nov 2023
Python module for the "Heidelberg Energy Control" Wallbox (enhanced for EVCC and HASS.io go-echarger integration)
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year
gopython-modules
richwps/server
Jun 2008 - Aug 2010
Contributions:29 commits in 2 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.