Stefan Richter

Principal Engineer & Tech Lead | Co-founder | 20 years in travel | Clarity, systems thinking & distributed teams

Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Experience

  • TravelLocal® (5 yrs)
    • Principal Engineer
      Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Chief Technology Officer
      Aug 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

      TravelLocal is changing the way people book bespoke holidays. We are an online travel booking platform, bringing handpicked local travel companies and in-country tour operators globally into an online marketplace. So if you're looking to travel to India, for instance, we make it safe and easy for you to book direct with an Indian owned travel company - giving you a better, more authentic trip, and benefiting local economies as much as possible. We enable customers worldwide to create and book customised holiday itineraries directly with experts in your destination, and with the security and trust of payment to a UK or EU company.

  • trip.me (13 yrs 7 mos)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Aug 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

      We enable customers worldwide to create and book customised holiday itineraries directly with experts in your destination, and with the security and trust of payment to a UK or EU company.

    • Co-founder & CTO
      Jan 2013 - Nov 2021 · 8 yrs 11 mos

      Trip.me connects travelers and local experts to enhance travelers' experiences and improve local economies.

  • Head of IT, viventura at viventura
    Aug 2003 - Jan 2013 · 9 yrs 6 mos

    Technical concepts for projects, strategic decisions (frameworks, architecture, etc.), coaching developers, implementing projects based on symfony PHP framework.

  • Web developer (part time) at Freelancer
    Jan 2010 - Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Software development, based on PHP frameworks (Symfony, Zend Framework)

  • Software developer, preparing diploma thesis at MindMatics AG
    Sep 2002 - Mar 2003 · 7 mos

    Concept and development of platform to send MMS through different providers. Unit testing assistent.