I’m Lukas Martinelli, CEO of Reprompt (YC W24), where we’re mapping the physical world with AI. Previously, I spent 7 years running engineering, product, and operations for the Search business at Mapbox. I’m passionate about maps, open source software, and building tools that help developers work with geospatial data. I have a history of creating widely adopted developer tools - my open source projects (15k+ stars) in the mapping industry are now used by companies like Amazon, IBM, and Bosch.

Expertise

I have a very good general purpose skill set consisting out of Linux, Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Node, Linux, Go and Haskell as well as experience in data engineering, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, OpenStreetMap and scaling applications in the cloud.

My expertise lies applying these skills to GIS to create maps and enable geospatial business intelligence - all of this in distributed systems so it can scale with ever growing GIS data.

My projects and past work experience are the best proof of what I work on and am capable of! I still have an older more detailed list with my technical skills

Projects

Check out my open source projects.

Work Experience

• CEO at Reprompt 2023-Present

  CEO of Reprompt (YC W24), where we're mapping the physical world with AI. We help companies like Foursquare and TomTom get the most up-to-date information about businesses through our AI agents that can read web content, documents, and visual data. Our platform automates location data collection and enrichment to keep maps and business directories current.

• General Manager & Engineering Director at Mapbox 2017-2023

  Spent 7 years running engineering, product, and operations as General Manager for the Search business at Mapbox, which provides APIs to 2 million developers. Led the executive team for Map Data, Search and Navigation SDK products. Helped scale geospatial data processing systems and built tools used by millions of developers worldwide.

  

• Software Engineer/DevOps at Device Tools 2016

  Software Engineer and DevOps for Devicetools. We built a Kubernetes based microservice platform using Golang.

  

• Software Engineer at Dreipol 2015-2016

  I worked 40% part time as Software Engineer for Dreipol. I create web applications from back to front with Django, JavaScript and Sass. I also built up a private PaaS and manage the cloud infrastructure with Docker.

  

• Swisscom Campus Ambassador 2014-2015

  I worked 20% part time as Campus Ambassador for Swisscom Human Resources connecting students with Swisscom as an innovative employer. In addition I worked on cloud products and helped building a social media dashboard with Python integrating Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

  

• Military Service at Swiss CNO 2013-2014

  I had the chance to spend my military service in the Swiss Cyber Network Operations division together with highly skilled people. Over the course of four months I was able to work with Python, Go, Big Data and the Cloud to solve security problems.

  

• Apprenticeship Online Consulting 2009-2013

  I was able to experience four wonderful and educational years as software engineer trainee working at Online Consulting. Due to the high personal responsibility given, I was able to work on many projects and make substantial progress as a developer.

  As web developer, I helped to create custom web applications for customers like Kubo or Glomar and made cost estimations and evaluations for projects.

  As part of a SCRUM team I helped develop parts of the PIM platform Smartsite EPM and created a concept how to create offline web applications for service technicians.

  I was also part of the core team to develop and work with a custom solution for generating automated product catalogs with Adobe Indesign. I still work on a contract basis with Online Consulting to maintain automated print solutions.

  

Education

• Bachelor of Computer Science 2013-2016

  I studied Computer Science at the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil and finished with an A grade.

• Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English 2012

  With the help of a great English teacher and friend I was able to pass the CPE (after I've completed the FCE and CAE in previous years). I love English and it is my technical language of choice.

• Federal Vocational Baccalaureate 2009-2013

  I completed the technical FVB at GBS extra occupational to my VET diploma with a . My FVB thesis was solving the Travelling Salesman Problem with heuristic methods and creating a Google Maps visualization for it.

• Federal VET Diploma in Information Technology 2009-2013

  I completed my apprenticeship at Online Consultingwith the VET Diploma in Information Technology (with focus on application development). My diploma thesis was an evaluation and proof-of-concept of a web application that can be used offline and online with the help of HTML5 file storage.