My resume Staff Software Engineer

About me

Staff-level software engineer with 16+ years of experience shipping products from first idea to production. Led frontend for an agentic AI platform at Unique AG and co-designed SAP FSM's extensibility concept. Improving my German beyond B1.

I am currently building Shellui, an open-source microfrontend shell and CLI (TypeScript, React, Python/Django).

Relevant skills

Work experience

• Staff Frontend Engineer
  Unique AG • Full-time

  December 2023 - December 2025 • 2 yrs 1 mo
  Zürich, Switzerland / Remote

  • Led frontend for an agentic AI chat platform used by financial services clients.
  • Streamed LLM answers live in the UI, with structured outputs and tool calling in production.
  • Integrated RAG and MCP into the chat flows, so answers use client context and stay compliant.
  • Partnered with product, design, and backend teams on delivery, keeping release quality high.

• Liquidity Provider, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  Private investor (own capital) • Self-directed

  August 2021 - November 2023 • 2 yrs 4 mos
  Zürich, Switzerland

  • Provided liquidity to on-chain DeFi AMM pools, fully funding my living costs for 2+ years.
  • In parallel, maintained Seven23, an open-source, end-to-end encrypted budget app (React, Redux, Django REST Framework, Docker), with 170+ GitHub stars across its repositories.
  • Built FromEdwin.com as a learning project on asynchronous performance metrics, owning architecture, backend, observability, and CI/CD.

• Associate Development Architect
  SAP (Schweiz) AG, FSM; promoted from Technical Lead • Full-time

  February 2020 - July 2021 • 1 yr 6 mos
  Zürich, Switzerland / Remote

  • Joined the team building FSM's microfrontends as Technical Lead, advising on architecture.
  • Co-designed the FSM extensibility concept for secure third-party integrations, driving partner adoption with code samples and public webinars.
  • Prepared management decisions on FSM's target architecture by assessing risks and effort.
  • Designed, coded and tested complex FSM features, and helped others resolve complex issues.
  • Mentored junior developers and coached the team on architecture, simplicity and best practices.

• Web Technologies Consultant and Freelancer
  Self-employed • Freelance

  September 2016 - January 2020 • 3 yrs 5 mos
  Chiang Mai, Thailand / Remote

  • Built the UI of Mozilla's Notes by Firefox extension and contributed to its React Native app.
  • Delivered chatbots, PWAs, and web integrations for clients including Chefclub and Mila AG.
  • Worked remotely and independently with international clients, from first call to release.

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• Front-end Developer / Technical Lead
  Fluance AG • Full-time

  June 2014 - August 2016 • 2 yrs 3 mos
  Solothurn, Switzerland

  • Led frontend in a four-person Scrum team building a cross-platform HL7 patient data interface.
  • Owned documentation, testing, and deployment; stack: AngularJS, jQuery, and Foundation CSS.

• Java Developer
  Covalia • Full-time

  September 2012 - June 2014 • 1 yr 10 mos
  Besançon, France

  • Maintained Java HL7/DICOM exchange for a telemedicine platform under ISO 13485.

• Part-time Lecturer
  University of Franche-Comté • Part-time

  September 2011 - September 2012 • 1 yr 1 mo
  Besançon, France

  • Taught 98 hours of practical Java and HTML/CSS to third-year engineering students.

• Co-founder and Full-stack Developer
  Ionyse • Part-time then Full-time

  July 2009 - June 2012 • 3 yrs
  Besançon, France

  • Co-founded a web agency during my master's, building client websites on a Python/Django CMS.

Soft skills

Education

• 2011

  Master degree in Computer Science - Distributed systems and networks - magna cum laude
  University of Franche-Comté, Science and technology - Besançon, France

  Internship: Nav6 Laboratory - Penang, Malaysia - 4 months.
  Developed a C# application using Google APIs for real-time collaborative document editing, integrated with a video chat platform.

• 2009

  Bachelor degree in Computer Science - cum laude
  University of Franche-Comté, Science and technology - Besançon, France

  Internship: MagicLabVision Laboratory - Adelaide, Australia - 3 months.
  Joined a research team developing an augmented reality application using Python.

• 2008

  Final year in Computer Science - ERASMUS
  University of Portsmouth - Portsmouth, England

• 2007

  Higher National Certificate in Computer Science
  IUT of Belfort - Belfort, France

  Internship: Thales Avionics Electrical Systems - Chatou, Île-de-France, France - 3 months.
  Developed a PHP web interface providing read-only access to a deprecated, archived ERP database.

Attending conferences

Here's a list of the conferences I attended in the past years: