In Zürich, my team and I are designing and building the Swiss AI Hub, an AI platform for organizations of every size. For our customers, I design custom AI solutions to solve their most pressing problems that were previously impossible or extremely difficult to solve without AI. I'm passionate about sharing my experience in building and implementing an AI-augmented development process.
I'm a Professional AI Engineer at bbv Software Services in Zürich. My team and I build the Swiss AI Hub — a Swiss-made, model-agnostic AI platform for organizations of any size — alongside custom AI solutions for customers, with a focus on RAG systems and agentic workflows. I also lead customer AI projects as Dev Lead.
I studied Informatics at the University of Zürich, earning a Bachelor's in Software Systems and a Master's in Artificial Intelligence. Throughout my studies I worked as a software engineer: first at swissbiomechanics (an ETH spin-off), then at PolygonSoftware where I worked as a full-stack developer leading customer projects, and at Ergon Informatik on workforce planning software for retail — before moving to bbv as an AI Engineer.
I grew up in Galgenen in the canton of Schwyz and, after a year of military service, studied Informatics at the University of Zürich, where I spent over six years — first a Bachelor's in Software Systems, then a Master's specializing in Artificial Intelligence. For my bachelor thesis I built a general-purpose range join algorithm for PostgreSQL, which won the Semesterpreis HS20 — a faculty-level award from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, recognizing one of only four students across the entire faculty that semester. The thesis took me to the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano for a research stay in South Tyrol. For my master's I dove into time series databases and the Kronecker decomposition — an unusual intersection of linear algebra and data compression that I found genuinely fascinating. The programme included an exchange semester at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, where I lived for four months, took a semester of Mandarin, and explored East Asia.
Throughout my studies I was always working alongside. My first real software job was at swissbiomechanics, an ETH spin-off, where I single-handedly built a Java application for tracking biomedical analyses and generating clinical reports. That threw me into the deep end of stakeholder communication and independent project ownership at twenty-two. From there I moved to PolygonSoftware, a startup founded by fellow UZH graduates, where I spent three years leading full-stack development and diving into computer vision and machine learning. I designed architectures, supervised dev teams, and talked directly with clients — the kind of small-company work where you end up doing a bit of everything and learning fast.
After finishing my Master's, I joined Ergon Informatik, one of Zürich's most respected software houses, and worked on a time-tracking and workforce planning system for the retail sector. There I sharpened my craft in enterprise Java and Kotlin, handled the full delivery cycle from requirements to support, and found that I really enjoyed mentoring — whether that was onboarding new team members or organizing IT workshops for local students. I loved working at Ergon but left after about a year when bbv offered the chance to move into my preferred specialization: AI.
These days I'm a Professional AI Engineer at bbv Software Services in Zürich, where I'm developing the Swiss AI Hub together with my team — a comprehensive, Swiss-made enterprise AI platform — and design its architecture together with the software architect. Beyond the platform, I design and implement customized AI solutions — especially RAG systems — for customer projects in industry and market research, and serve as technical lead (Dev Lead) on these AI projects. I also operate and maintain the platform at customer sites. It sits at the exact intersection of my interests: real engineering problems, cutting-edge AI, and the challenge of making complex technology usable and trustworthy for organisations that can't afford to get it wrong.
I also speak and write about AI-augmented software engineering — how AI is changing the way we build software, not just the software itself. I've given talks at the FHNW Alumni Event and bbv webinars on practical methods for integrating AI into the development lifecycle, from requirements analysis through to testing.
My technical toolkit centres on Python, TypeScript, and Java/Kotlin, with deep experience in agent orchestration, RAG, and the Model Context Protocol. I'm fluent in German and English, and speak some French. And when I'm not coding — hot tea, cold beer, good food, thick books, old music, and long boardgame nights.
bbv webinar on practical methods, tools, and proven strategies for integrating AI into the software development lifecycle — from requirements analysis through code development to testing.
Talk at the FHNW Data Science & Data Engineering Alumni Event on integrating AI into the software development lifecycle — from enterprise AI strategy and the Swiss AI Hub, to working with coding agents and the "Development Funnel" for context-driven AI workflows.
Swiss-made, model-agnostic enterprise AI platform. Listed on Siemens Xcelerator, certified Swiss Made Software.
My website — a bilingual portfolio with an integrated AI chatbot, built with Eleventy and vanilla JS.
A simulation framework for auctioning airspace to autonomous drones. Master's team project at UZH with Johann Schwabe and Joel Barmettler.
Some of my most formative experiences happened far from a desk — locked in an Airbnb during a pandemic, exploring Taiwan during an exchange semester, or stumbling through Mandarin with classmates from all over the world.
I went to the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano to write my bachelor thesis — and arrived just as COVID shut everything down. I could only attend the university for two weeks before it closed. I ended up locked in an Airbnb in the countryside of South Tyrol, walking the host's dog twice a day through apple fields to keep sane. The isolation turned out to be remarkably effective for getting work done.
I lived in Taipei for about four months during my Master's, studying at the National Taiwan University. I took a semester of Mandarin — I still remember some, but not nearly enough for a real conversation. I travelled around the island whenever I could.
From Taipei I went to Korea for a week with two Japanese friends from my Mandarin course. Towards the end of the semester my girlfriend visited, and we travelled to Japan together, flying back to Switzerland from Tokyo. I also visited one of my Japanese friends in his hometown Sasebo.
Feel free to reach out — I'm happy to chat.