Experience

My own consultancy for cloud platforms, FinOps and AI, from prototype to production. For larger projects I bring in a small network of trusted senior specialists, so the team grows with the job and you keep one point of contact.

• Took two AI-built prototypes to production: a SaaS and LMS for training providers and a booking platform for a hospitality business
• AI in production: a WhatsApp guest assistant, AI lead scoring and MCP servers for Claude and ChatGPT
• Azure platform for an EdTech company: Static Web Apps, App Service and Functions, strict Dev, Test and Prod, secrets in Key Vault
• Release pipelines with checks before merge, smoke tests after every deploy and backups restore-tested every night
• AI-assisted delivery with written guardrails: more than 5,000 merged pull requests across two platforms

Release engineering for a whole family of retail-banking apps used by millions, in the App Store and Google Play

• Multi-banking in the app: accounts and transactions from other banks aggregated next to the customer's own, shipped through the same pipelines
• Multi-stage pipelines (Dev, PoC, QA, Prod) that build, sign and ship the iOS and Android apps to TestFlight, the App Store, Firebase, Google Play and SauceLabs
• App hardening with Promon and automated MobSF security scans in every pipeline
• Nightly builds that catch breaking changes early
• Version compatibility between backend, web and mobile, with zero-downtime rollback
• Release cycles about 40% faster in a heavily regulated environment

Azure migration, Terraform, governance

• Moved a regulation-relevant tuning-detection application to Azure Kubernetes Service, fully in Terraform
• Azure Policies and Blueprints enforcing security baselines and network rules across teams
• Observability with Azure Monitor, Defender and Grafana
• Cost controls and a tagging strategy: cloud costs about 25% lower

Consulting for the Canton of Zurich, Azure Functions, APIs

• Serverless middleware on Azure Functions (TypeScript) with Azure Queue Storage that moves highly sensitive records between two public health systems without losing a single one
• First deputy, then representative of the Canton of Zurich in an inter-cantonal steering committee, planning releases with the other cantons
• Bi-directional ERP and CRM sync (Maconomy and HubSpot) while both systems stayed in live use
• ISO 27001 certification tool: Spring Boot backend plus native Android and iOS apps, used by staff to manage controls and evidence

Hackathons and hardware workshops at schools with Arduino, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi

• Mentor at school hackathons where students build their own tech projects
• Workshop trainer: built hardware kits and teaching material
• Organisation and coordination of events

Native Android app for psychological research studies

• Designed and built the native Android app in Java and Kotlin
• Encrypted, secure transmission of sensitive research data to the backend
• Usability for a very diverse group of study participants, to maximise data quality