JavaScript Experts in Zurich

• Designed and engineered a shared web component library for a customer portal serving 360,000+ private users and integrated the LWC framework with Storybook via Rollup.
• Resolved WCAG AA compliance issues to support strict accessibility requirements.
• Integrated legacy systems into a new portal via REST API to support existing products.

Reduced time-to-market by optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Employees without customer VM access can now deploy. Increased system stability and performance and reduced maintenance effort through systematic database cleanup. Restricted rights for Flyway migrations versus service users. Improved transparency and decision-making basis with enhanced Grafana dashboards for response times, optimized logging, and standardization with Loki. Reduced security risks by consistently applying security best practices such as removing the public schema in PostgreSQL, individual service user permissions, and Docker security context. Facilitated knowledge transfer and sustainable process improvements by creating process diagrams and implementing various concepts. Conducted code reviews across multiple repositories.

• Clients: Central banks of the most developed economies in the world, German, Swiss, Luxembourgish, Monegasque, Singaporean, Japanese wealth managers and universal/private banks, world’s largest investment banks
• Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives
• Project managing portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps)
• Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform; modules: CRM, client data management, wealth management, portfolio management (generating over 90% of company revenues)
• Key responsibilities:
• Reporting to Head of Disruptive Innovation Division; stakeholder to five product owners & two domain owners
• Accountable for delivery of annual themes and quarterly key deliverables
• Managing demand vs supply via QBR process: book of work, execution, reporting, risk management
• Directly managing around 40 external consultants (front-end/back-end engineers, BAs, designers)
• Hiring and managing resources in eight countries
• Running quarterly divisional closure meetings presenting achievements and challenges
• Resolving cross-team dependencies and internal/external conflicts
• Owning and controlling maintenance budget; planning, forecasting, execution; ensuring demand matches supply
• Identifying and staffing key roles with chapter leads
• Approach: Agile, Scrum of Scrums, QBR/OKRs
• Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA (JQL)

• Support with the introduction and implementation of the Qualtrics XM platform in the consulting and service environment for customers, e.g. in the banking sector, focusing on data quality, parameterization, technical coordination, and implementation support

• Technical validation of configurations, feedback flows, and reporting setups

• Review and assurance of data quality (mapping, mandatory fields, regulatory-relevant fields)

• Performance of UAT, functional tests, and data checks in collaboration with the department and IT

• Coordination with stakeholders from consulting, service, compliance, IT, and product management

• Clarification of technical requirements with the business side and derivation of adaptation requirements in the platform

• Creation of documentation, test protocols, and quality-related artifacts

• Support in the preparation of internal approvals and rollouts

• Successful technical acceptance of the new feedback and reporting functionalities

• Increase in data quality in the relevant fields (e.g., feedback classification, assignment to the consulting process)

• Stable implementation of the platform in the consulting environment with clear handover to IT and specialist departments

• Solely responsible for two portfolios totaling USD 1 million with an average monthly performance of 2%
• Responsible for the investment strategy, specializing in US equities and ETFs (exchanges: NASDAQ and NYSE)
• Market, trend, data, and technical chart analysis
• Risk management – diversification, daily/weekly risk mitigation measures (rebalancing) to ensure optimal portfolio profitability

• Build prototypes, expand AI skills, and practical application in a startup context.
• Transition phase: further training in prompt engineering, APIs, AI, working on independent prototype projects, and collaborating at a friend's startup.
• Technologies: LangChain, REST, Python, Java, JS, TS, Node.

• Building productivity solutions for backoffice functions including case management and automated workflows in insurance
• Integration of GenAI functionality in operational processes for efficiency based on measurable KPIs
• Successfully delivering integration and data projects with agile methodology in requirements engineering, cloud native development and computing, software development, data analytics, quality management and technical documentation
• Coaching and advising clients for adoption of technologies such as use case identification, organizational impact assessment and building a business case for investments
• Advising clients on cost optimization through IT carve out and outsourcing of software product engineering
• Technologies: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, GitHub Co-Pilot, Agile/SAFe

• Analysis, consulting, and development of a WordPress application for the digital processing and delivery of the Bauma chronicle archive

• Building a framework for automated website testing
• Testing, regression testing
• Defect management
• Release management, UAT, agile testing
• Feature discussions with business
• Test management

• Participating in a strategic enterprise project to introduce a centralized customer data platform ("Single Source of Truth") to eliminate redundant data storage and accelerate digital services

• Analyzing and documenting business and system requirements for migrating large, heterogeneous data sets (ETL) and for continuous data synchronization between core systems and the new platform

• Close collaboration with business units, data engineers and architects to gather and validate requirements, and to ensure data quality, consistency and regulatory compliance

• Defining the migration strategy, specifying ETL processes and synchronization mechanisms, and documenting technical interfaces

• Developing and executing test cases for migration and synchronization processes, and performing defect analysis to ensure data integrity and system stability

• Technologies: SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure DevOps, Confluence, UML, RESTful Services, Swagger, Postman

• Project management (SAP BN (Ariba) onboarding, support for SAP ECC and SAP TM for supplier topics)
• Standardization of global value creation processes
• Basic training as well as central contact person for suppliers and support for planners

• Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
• Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
• Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
• Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
• Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.

• Worked in mixed teams with several clients
• Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
• Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
• Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
• Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
• Coordinated continuously with clients during development
• Performed testing and helped clients with testing
• Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
• Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
• Integrated between instances at different clients
• Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts

• Responsible for IT integration test and user acceptance test for SAP S/4 Hana and BDO BO Customer Financials Management
• Led the test team (business testers and IT testers)
• Resource planning and control within the test team
• Created test concepts and test plans
• Performed test risk analysis
• Coordinated test execution and defect tracking
• Ensured test progress
• Generated and visualized reports
• Summarized test reports and reported to management
• Prepared and conducted user acceptance tests
• Managed SIGMA and JIRA/Confluence at project level