It took me a while to find my path, but as soon as I started programming, I knew it would define me for the rest of my life.
I would define myself as a generalist. From quantum computing research to cloud infrastructure at Divio, I've worn many hats and touched many stacks. This means I am not an expert, but I bring a unique perspective and a diverse set of skills to the table.
I believe the best systems are boring, which allows more time for the things that aren't: like sharing knowledge with the dev community, compulsively reading books, attending LES MILLS fitness classes, crafting idiotic things, and obsessing over octopuses 🐙.
I've worked across many stacks, languages, and domains over the years, and worn multiple hybrid hats (tech lead, infra lead), though I don't claim to be an expert in any single one. What I do bring: strong technical writing, clear communication, and the ability to quickly grasp new concepts and see the bigger picture.
I've learned that technical skills are perishable, and the hardest problems are rarely the technical ones. Transient though they may be, learning new things is what makes this job so exciting and fun. And each new piece of knowledge makes the next one easier to pick up!
Python, Java, Django, Spring Boot, databases, APIs
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, systems thinking
Team strategy, mentoring, technical decisions
Technical writing, open source, community engagement
Aside from my job, I have always liked doing random stuff and contributing to open-source. Here are some picks, though they do not always match my professional occupation.
Want more? See GitHub portfolio or my blog.
is the first successful attempt at using a quantum annealer (D-Wave) for the reconstruction of charged particles at LHC. It led to a publication by Springer, and conferences in the USA, Japan, Spain, and France. My master thesis won an Award from the Fritz Kutter Fond (ETHZ).
This project took place in Berkeley, CA. It was a wonderful experience that taught me about physics, quantum computers, and myself.
Short for Big Building Data, BBData is a common platform for acquisition, storage, processing and sharing of smart building data. The main technologies include Hadoop, Spring Boot, Kafka, Cassandra, and Flink.
I was the lead developer and wrote two papers in collaboration with HEIA-FR and EPFL. The system is now in production and stores large volumes of data from sensors in Fribourg’s Smart Living Lab.
SwissCrawl is a corpus of 500,000+ Swiss German (GSW) sentences gathered from crawling the web between September and November 2019. The corpus was created using a semi-automated web-crawling toolchain in Python suited for low-resourced languages.
I designed, developed, and operated the whole toolchain as part of the SwissTranslation project in collaboration with Swisscom. It led to a publication in LREC.
A universal Markdown TOC generator, available from the web or as a command-line executable. Contrary to other similar tools, BitDownToc is idempotent and supports all major platforms (BitBucket, GitHub, Gitlab, dev.to, hashnode, etc).
I started this project to learn Kotlin Multiplatform, and found an audience. It is actively maintained and constantly improved.
Mantelo is a super small yet super powerful tool for interacting with the Keycloak Admin API.
It always stays fresh and complete because it does not hard-code or wrap any endpoint. Instead, it offers a clean, object-oriented interface to the Keycloak RESTful API, handling all the boring stuff for you (authentication, tokens, serialization, etc.).
Any endpoint your Keycloak supports, mantelo supports!
A suite of software used by a Belgian jewelry retail store chain called Colimaçon. It includes transactional tools, such as the cashier desk interface, and managerial tools to manage products, stocks, movements, and inventories. The technologies are Angular, MySQL, and Python/Flask.
I was the lead developer on the whole project, from design to production. I also provided support and maintenance for more than 2 years.
Open Source projects are a way to try new languages and technologies and have fun! I have many personal projects, too many to list here, but you can find more information on my GitHub or my blog.
I also contribute to other open-source projects when I can (Hacktoberfest).
A simple password manager that saves everything to an encrypted JSON file in Dropbox. The advantages? Always backed up, always available. If anything goes wrong with the app, you still have control.
EasyPass was my go-to project when trying a new language or technology. Current implementations include Go (command-line app), Java (desktop app), Kotlin (Android app), and Perl (command-line app).
GameJams are friendly competitions where small teams of designers and developers (typically 4) work together for 2-4 days to create a game based on one or more themes
Participating in game jams in the past has been a fantastic experience that taught me valuable skills such as collaboration, quick thinking, creativity, and stress management. Most importantly, it was a lot of fun!
On top of the SRE role, lead and manage the infrastructure team, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Divio's and client's platforms. This also includes technical leadership on the Roche infrastructure powering all Roche's affiliate websites, which is separated from Divio and runs on AWS/CDK.
Divio is a PaaS company based on its own custom-build orchestrator. Together with a small team of fewer than 7 engineers, we manage the entire Divio platform, from backend development (Python/Django) to cloud services (AWS, Azure, etc.), and everything in between.
Contribute to the platform powering all digital products. Broad tasks and responsibilities, including R&D, development & maintenance of robust and reusable components (Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, gRPC, Kafka, ...), CI/CD (Jenkins, OpenShift, Helm), support & formation to other teams, SM (scrum master)/Team lead. I love the diversity and the wide array of challenges and opportunities it offers.
Work on a deep neural translation system to convert Swiss German to High German (NLP, machine learning, transformers). Creation of an open-source, generic web crawler used to collect the largest Swiss German corpus to date - SwissCrawl.
Lead developer on various projects, including BBData, a Big Data ecosystem for Smart Buildings (Hadoop), and Colimaçon, a transactional and managerial ecosystem for a Jewelry retail chain, both in production. Teaching, coaching.
The first application of a quantum annealer (D-Wave) to reconstruct the paths of charged particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Led to a publication by Springer and conferences in the USA, Japan, Spain, and France.
Development of websites and WordPress plugins. Setup, maintenance, logos, and design.
I mentor young women (13-17) interested in technology, following them over a period of 7 months and sharing advice, knowledge, and experiences.
Unleash your coding potential with a community of like-minded developers sharing their stories and experiences.
This paper is a follow-up that presents the improvements made to BBData v2.0 and the choices behind it: review of some design choices, technology stack overhaul, profiles to better fit different needs, improved performances, thorough stress tests, open-sourcing of the code, and much more.
This paper presents SwissCrawl, the broadest Swiss German text corpus to date. It was generated using a semi-automated web scraping tool available on GitHub that could be applied to other low-resource languages.
This paper demonstrates the use of a quantum annealer (D-Wave) for the reconstruction of charged particles at LHC. It is the first successful application of quantum computing to high-energy physics (HEP).
This paper presents Big Building Data (BBDATA), a secure platform for storing building-related data based on the latest Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data technologies.
A fund from the ETH Zürich honoring the best thesis (diploma, master, doctoral) at a Swiss university for work of a high quality, innovative, and considered to be directly relevant to industry and/or commerce.
Master of Sciences (Msc) · Software development
Bachelor of Sciences (Bsc) · Software development
Bachelor of Arts (Ba) · Communication, Sociology and Philosophy
Maturité · Psychology & Philosophy
Whether you want to chat about software, books, or your next great idea, I'd love to hear from you!
