paddentech

Senior Dev Rel Engineer

I am an experienced engineer of over 10 years' experience, familiar with front-end Web Dev, smart contract development in Solidity and Rust, service layer development in a variety of languages, with team and project management skills. I get things done.


Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $150,000

Hourly rate: $100

Nationality: 🇨🇭 Switzerland

Residency: 🇨🇭 Switzerland


Experience

Head of Developer Relations
Casper Association
2022 - 2024
Responsible for DevRel strategy, implementation and ongoing development. Managed a distributed team of Developer Advocates, built a developer community. Created reference applications in Rust and Typescript to demonstrate idiomatic use of the chain. Delivered technical content, talks, lectures, demos, and tutorials. Drove enhanced DX through targeted toolchain enhancements and Rust macros Leveraged AI to deliver developer experience improvements, process and efficiency gains
Senior Developer
QZabre
2020 - 2022
Spinoff startup from ETH Zurich selling high-end quantum sensing microscope hardware. Responsible for creation of a desktop application to control/manipulate hardware, display and analyze data. Implemented core Python/C++ features using Qt bindings, including UI components and integrated hardware drivers. Established DevOps infrastructure and mentored junior developers. Gained domain knowledge in quantum mechanics and atomic force microscopy.
Development Lead
Healthbank
2018 - 2019
Blockchain startup, Led development for medical information platform serving 250,000+ users. Built DevOps environment, designed core services in Java, UI in Angular. Managed full-stack development with nearshore team collaboration.
Consultant Developer
Various
2010 - 2018
Worked as a software consultant for companies in the greater Zurich region. Clients included UBS, Credit Suisse, Roche Diagnostics, Julius Baer, Standard Chartered, Citigroup, Baloise Insurance Gained domain expertise in Financial Services, Health Sciences, Blockchain, Robotics Gained exposure to a wide range of programming languages and technologies, including .Net, Java, Python, Javascript/Typescript and others.
Consultant Developer
Various
2010 - 2018
Worked as a software consultant for companies in the greater Zurich region. Clients included UBS, Credit Suisse, Roche Diagnostics, Julius Baer, Standard Chartered, Citigroup, Baloise Insurance Gained domain expertise in Financial Services, Health Sciences, Blockchain, Robotics Gained exposure to a wide range of programming languages and technologies, including .Net, Java, Python, Javascript/Typescript and others.
Software Architect
UBS Investment Bank
2008 - 2010
Architect/developer role for UBS Investment Bank in Opfikon, in a small team of 5. Responsible for delivering a new trade monitoring application to integrate with existing trading system. Designed and implemented a multi-tier solution integrating with existing data feeds, security systems and providing location-aware security for Swiss data. Delivered solution based on ASP .NET and Javascript, provided support during maintenance phase and handover.

Skills

developer-relations
dot-net
python
rust
solidity
tech-lead
typescript
engineering-manager
english
german