Available for work · Zurich, Switzerland
I like backend systems best when nobody has to think about them — the API responds, the pipeline runs, the deploy just works. 5+ years of making that boring reliability happen with Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS — with quantified cost and reliability wins to show for it.
Open to freelance backend/API projects and full-time mid-senior roles in Switzerland. Swiss Permit B holder — no sponsorship required.
30%
faster incident resolution · Eturnity
40%
faster deployments · INTIS
$100k/yr
cut in infrastructure costs · SeekandHit
Depth by category, not a badge collection — bars indicate hands-on proficiency, from foundation to production-level.
Five roles, five different problems — the same pattern: find what's slow, fragile, or expensive, and fix it.
Shipped production sites for two clients with automated CI/CD to Vercel, while building a FastAPI + PostgreSQL job-tracking platform to keep AWS and applied-AI skills current.
Since mid-2025 I've worked as an independent backend/full-stack engineer, splitting time between client delivery and a personal engineering project used to stay sharp on production-grade Python and cloud practices.
Cut incident resolution time by 30% through improved service observability and structured error handling.
Eturnity builds software for solar energy planning and simulation. I worked as a backend engineer building and maintaining Django services that powered energy calculation pipelines and internal tooling used by the operations and sales teams.
Improved deployment speed by 40% by leading containerisation and breaking a monolith into independently deployable services.
INTIS operated a Django monolith that had grown to the point where individual team deployments were blocked by unrelated changes. I led the containerisation effort and drove the architectural migration toward FastAPI-based microservices, enabling teams to ship independently.
Eliminated $100k/year in Apigee licensing costs by replacing the vendor API gateway with an in-house FastAPI proxy and auth system.
SeekandHit's API traffic was routed through Apigee, which had become the largest line item in their infrastructure budget without providing commensurate value. I designed and built a replacement API proxy in FastAPI, covering routing, rate limiting, and request transformation — removing the Apigee dependency entirely.
Delivered a working protocol-mapping tool used by network engineers to translate between vendor-specific XML schemas.
During an internship at Ericsson, I built a protocol-mapping tool for network engineers who needed to translate data between different vendor XML schemas — a process that was previously manual and error-prone.
I am available for freelance backend and API projects, as well as full-time mid-senior backend and cloud engineering roles in Switzerland. Swiss Permit B — no sponsorship needed.
My process is straightforward: a short scoping call, a clear estimate, then regular updates until it ships — no surprises at invoice time.