Helvetia Insurance Group

Building and operating a secure and robust web delivery platform. Concepts and best practices from fields such as DevOps, Cloud computing and web security are crucial to the success of this platform.

Profile and tool stack:

- Maintaining and operating security-related infrastructure components and services
- AdNovum WAF appliance
- Akamai CDN
- AWS Cloud infrastructure and DevOps integration
- Linux (RHEL) building and rollouts

DevOps / Platform Engineer

b-nova Schweiz GmbH

Learned skills:
- Cloud migration of JBoss application stacks onto Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Cloud development onto AWS using IaC and microservice-based software architecture
- Various CI/CD and DevOps implementations
- Software development for e-commerce, CMS and various middleware applications using Spring framework, SAP Commerce, Magnolia CMS and other frameworks
- Extensive use of various tech eco-systems such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Gitlab, and others
- Consultant competences in multiple high-profile enterprise environments

DISCLAIMER: this needs heavy updating

Software Engineer / IT Consultant

Learned skills:
- Applied project management
- Solution development (VBA, Python, databases, Web 2.0/HTML/JS, Git)
- Business/IT consultancy (process management, automation, social media, communication, ...)
- Keeping up with emerging technologies

Summary:
For various clients, I successfully conceptualized, developed and implemented means of making their ventures more efficient, accessible and cutting-edge. This usually involves getting to know your clients needs, preliminary requirement analysis and coming up with an agreeable/feasible concept. Among the projects I made my clients happy with were using following skills and tools:

1. QM documentation automation (saving >50h/month): Office Suite with extensive VBA and Python scripting.

2. Digital small business overhaul (saving >120h/month): Cloud-based database (DB+UI design), system administration (OSX, Win, GNU/Linux, iOS), extensive VBA and Python scripting, device procurement, digital signage and basic marketing techniques.

3. Digitization of a nation-wide examination process: HTML/CSS, Office Suite with extensive VBA and Python scripting, system administration (Win), device procurement.

4. Close advising and whole digital conceptualization of a Swiss-based watch reseller: E-commerce implementation, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS, business and web analytics.

IT Consultant

Learned skills:
- WM Banking
- Profiling, research and data analytics
- Transactional and database tools (Abacus, GPP, DB Queries)
- Heavy use of written and spoken language skills (German, French, English, Spanish)

Summary:
Working in a small heavily specialised team in the Chief Operations Office, I got the opportunity to challenge my skills with a variety of research-intensive tasks. Most of the work consisted of profiling customers using confidential data, a wide range of languages, bank-related technical tools and assembling them in a readable/usable form. I automated repetitious steps whenever I could -mostly using VBA- in order to improve performance. This way, I was the best-performing collaborator of 2017 within the office unit. Additionally, I shared my technical knowledge with my peers when convenient and was well appreciated for that matter.

Operations Product Specialist

Caritas Schweiz

Learned skills:
- Leadership
- Supply and Storage Management
- Social Coaching (cross-language)
- Project Management

Summary:
I entered the institution as a Zivi and as someone dropped out I got contracted in his position. The workshop to manage was a storage hall with a capacity of roughly 400m^2 storing a wide range of goods. The team I lead consisted of up to 20 second-market members. During my employment, I got the opportunity to reconceive the whole workshop as my boss and I deemed it more than necessary for a multitude of reasons. Besides the complete restructuring of storage spaces, I implemented a pragmatic and smart storage system including a decentralized inventory, event-based work delegation and efficient routing. My responsibility was not only the conceptualization and the implementation of the whole change project but also the organization and communication of/to partnering workshops. The endeavour was a total success and is still used in said configuration today. Furthermore, I also completed many other smaller projects, usually involving IT, technical and/or linguistic skillsets.

Social Workshop Manager

Valeo

Learned skills:
- Monitoring and maintenance of production/assembly units
- Repairing defective electronics systems
- QM documentation and low-key auditing
- French culture immersion

Technical Trainee

Hi, I'm Raffael. My tl;dr would be

... therefore I see myself as a software crafter building efficient solution-driven bazaars in guise of conceptual cathedrals in the age of distributed and decentralised information systems.

What I like 👍
Both Emacs and Vim, OpenBSD, Rust, Elixir, antifragility in all aspects of life, getting philosophical about tools and how they enabled civilization making

What I don't like 👎
No means to get memes, greasy keyboards, tech pessimism, bloat, MS Teams

My go-to answer whenever I don't know what else to say 🤷
"U probably need no web framework, my fren."

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