About myself

I'm Simon, software engineer and architect curious about all things technology.

I've worked in financial services for many years writing software for FX pricing and execution, the Swiss stock exchange and driving innovation in the insurance space. I've done everything from backend to frontend development, infrastructure automation, continuous integration, deployment, monitoring, and fixing production issues at 2AM.

Professional Experience

Confluent

July 2023 — Present (2+ years)

Solutions Engineer

Swiss Re

July 2021 — June 2023 (2 years)

Development Lead Prototype Lab, started as Senior Developer

SIX

August 2020 — June 2021 (11 months)

Software Engineer, Application Manager, Scrum Master

UBS

August 2010 - July 2020 (10 years)

Software Engineer

Other Experience

Founding & Freelance Development

2020 — Present

Independent consulting and development work for startups and small businesses, specializing in full-stack web applications and cloud solutions.

Operations Management

2015 — 2024

Leadership in the Swiss Armed Forces, with responsibility for people, operations and logistics.

Education

ZHAW School of Engineering

September 2016 — June 2020

BSc in Computer Science

Technologies & Tools

Programming Languages

Golang Java JavaScript TypeScript Dart Rust Python

Web Technologies

Flutter React Astro Qwik Vue.js Astro Node.js HTML5 CSS3

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Azure Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Terraform Pulumi

Data

Confluent Apache Kafka Apache Flink SQL Firestore Apache Iceberg DuckDB Databricks Hazelcast Infinispan Gemfire TIBCO Rendevouz TIBCO EMS

Observability

Grafana Prometheus Splunk Datadog

Platforms

Git GitHub GitLab TeamCity Jenkins Bamboo Nexus SonarQube Confluence Jira SVN

IDEs

VSCode Zed IntelliJ IDEA WebStorm Eclipse

Methodologies

Agile Scrum SAFe Kanban TDD CICD DevOps