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"root": "Robert Blust",
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"id": "experience-kinds/community",
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"name": "Community",
"tagline": "Work done in public — a talk, a seat, a working group, a published case.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local"
},
"sections": [
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"heading": "What it means",
"text": "A period whose output is addressed to a public rather than to one organization: a conference\ntalk, a board or committee seat, a user group, a case study published under someone else's\nname, a tool put out in the open. Who paid for the time does not decide the kind; an employer\ncan host a talk or publish an article and the period is still this kind, because the audience\nis. `organization` names the host where there is one — the conference, the group, the\npublisher, the employer when it published the work itself — and is absent when nobody hosted\nit.\n\nA talk writes `end` equal to `start`; a board seat held for years does not. Both are this kind:\nwhat makes it community work is the audience, not the duration.",
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"path": "model/experience-kinds/community.md"
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{
"id": "experience-kinds/education",
"type": "experience-kind",
"name": "Education",
"tagline": "A degree, a certification, a course.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "A period whose output is a qualification rather than a delivery. `organization` names the\nawarding body — the school, the certifying institute — the one case where the field does not\nname somewhere work was done.\n\nLearning that happened during a role is not this kind. Every role teaches something; what makes\na period education is that the qualification is the point of it.",
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}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/experience-kinds/education.md"
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{
"id": "experience-kinds/independent",
"type": "experience-kind",
"name": "Independent",
"tagline": "A self-directed period with no employer and no client.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local"
},
"sections": [
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"heading": "What it means",
"text": "A period worked for oneself: what to build and whether to build it were the same person's\ndecision, and nobody commissioned the result. `organization` is absent, because there is none —\nwhich is the difference a reader would otherwise have to infer from an empty field.\n\nIt is not a project: nobody asked for the delivery, and the period is not bounded by it. It is\nnot a role: there is no organization to hold a position in. Those two readings are what this\nkind exists to avoid having to choose between — a career break spent building products is\nneither, and saying so is cheaper than pretending it is one of them.",
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}
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"owner": null,
"path": "model/experience-kinds/independent.md"
},
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"id": "experience-kinds/project",
"type": "experience-kind",
"name": "Project",
"tagline": "A delivery worth naming on its own, inside a role or beside one.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "A period defined by what it produced rather than by whom it was spent with: a platform, a\nmigration, a launch. Client work and internal work alike. `organization` names the client, or\nwhoever the work was done for when that is not the employer. Where the client cannot be named,\nit names the employer the work was done through, and the body says the client is unnamed.\n\nIt ends when the delivery does. A project with no end and no deliverable is a role described by\nits current work.",
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}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/experience-kinds/project.md"
},
{
"id": "experience-kinds/role",
"type": "experience-kind",
"name": "Role",
"tagline": "A position held in an organization — the employment history.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "A period spent working for an organization under an arrangement that outlasts any one piece of\nwork: employment, a long contract, a partnership. `organization` names the employer.\n\nIt is not a delivery. What was built during a role is a project of its own, and a role whose\nachievements describe one system is usually two periods written as one. The test is whether the\nperiod would have continued had the work changed: if it would, it is a role.",
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}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/experience-kinds/role.md"
},
{
"id": "identity",
"type": "identity",
"name": "Robert Blust",
"tagline": "A company of one: technology leadership and business architecture, and the models that let people and agents both work inside a business.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local",
"email": "robert@blust.ch",
"location": "Wallisellen, Switzerland",
"url": "https://blust.ch"
},
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"heading": "What it is",
"text": "One person, described in CompanyGraph as a company would be. The work is technology\nleadership, business architecture and model-driven engineering — lately turned on the business\nitself, so that a company is legible to the people who run it and to the agents that\nincreasingly work alongside them.\n\nThis instance is both the description and the proof: the same discipline sold to a company,\napplied first to its author.",
"tables": []
},
{
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],
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]
]
}
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]
]
}
}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/identity.md"
},
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"id": "proficiency-levels/competent",
"type": "proficiency-level",
"name": "Competent",
"tagline": "Reliable alone. Unsupervised work with a predictable result.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local",
"rank": "20"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "Someone at this level works with it unsupervised and the result is predictable. They recognize\nthe common failure modes, having run into them.",
"tables": []
}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/proficiency-levels/competent.md"
},
{
"id": "proficiency-levels/expert",
"type": "proficiency-level",
"name": "Expert",
"tagline": "Knows the limits. Has worked below the surface, shaped it, or taught it.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local",
"rank": "40"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "Someone at this level knows where it breaks down and where it is simply wrong. They have worked\nbelow its surface, shaped it, or taught it.",
"tables": []
}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/proficiency-levels/expert.md"
},
{
"id": "proficiency-levels/familiar",
"type": "proficiency-level",
"name": "Familiar",
"tagline": "Needs support. Real use, with guidance or frequent reference.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local",
"rank": "10"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "Someone at this level has used it on real work, with guidance or frequent reference. They can\nfollow a conversation about it and make sense of other people's work in it.",
"tables": []
}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/proficiency-levels/familiar.md"
},
{
"id": "proficiency-levels/proficient",
"type": "proficiency-level",
"name": "Proficient",
"tagline": "Exercises judgment. Chooses between alternatives and can say why.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local",
"rank": "30"
},
"sections": [
{
"heading": "What it means",
"text": "Someone at this level makes judgment calls in it and can explain why the alternatives are\nworse. Other people bring them their questions.",
"tables": []
}
],
"owner": null,
"path": "model/proficiency-levels/proficient.md"
},
{
"id": "profiles/robert-blust",
"type": "profile",
"name": "Robert Blust",
"tagline": "Building fast is solved. Deciding well is not.",
"fields": {
"source": "Local"
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"sections": [
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"heading": "Skills",
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"columns": [
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"Level",
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"rows": [
[
"Agentic AI development",
"Expert",
"Built LIKE MAGIC's internal AI marketplace on Claude, giving teams governed access to assistants and agents grounded in the Mental Model (2022–2026). Built CompanyGraph and GuestGraph agent-first under written conventions that encode the failure modes: an unresolvable reference is an error rather than a warning, and every validation pass names what it did not check (2026)."
],
[
"Agile delivery",
"Competent",
"Served as Scrum Master and technical lead on central UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank initiatives (2009–2015). Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner (2016)."
],
[
"AI governance",
"Proficient",
"Defined LIKE MAGIC's AI governance and held the company to it: a Human Oversight principle, guardrails against training external LLMs on internal context, multi-provider tooling and cost governance (2022–2026)."
],
[
"AI strategy",
"Proficient",
"Authored and executed LIKE MAGIC's company-wide AI strategy, from the internal rollout of assistants across planning, delivery and operations to shipped customer-facing AI, with d3x, ailean and onsai integrated into the staff solution (2022–2026)."
],
[
"AI tool integration (MCP)",
"Competent",
"Wired Atlassian, Google Drive and Slack MCP servers into the agent that maintained the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model, each command scoped to a named allowlist of tools, so the knowledge base stayed in step with the systems it described (2022–2026). No server authored: the platform's own MCP layer was still roadmap at exit, as CompanyGraph's is now"
],
[
"API design",
"Expert",
"Established API and data management for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank with generated XML-Schema and WSDL service contracts (2009–2015). Set 3AP's reference architecture so the service cut decided what each service exposed (2015–2022). Gave Stay KooooK its API surface from the first commit, REST specified in OpenAPI, generated from the code and secured by OAuth 2.0 (2020–2022). Led LIKE MAGIC's API-first strategy to a partner API documented in the open, REST on OpenAPI 3.1 with webhook subscriptions and OAuth 2.0 scopes over property, reservation, guest, messaging, door access and task resources (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Business architecture",
"Expert",
"Drove business architecture and capability modeling on EMF/Ecore at UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank (2009–2015). Mapped LIKE MAGIC's 12 business domains as concepts with the capabilities under each, and cut the platform, the teams and the product strategy along that map (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Business process modeling (BPMN, DMN)",
"Proficient",
"Modeled the guest journey from booking to check-out in Camunda BPMN for Stay KooooK (2020–2022). Published the model as the subject of an article on monitoring a process by the message it is still waiting for (2021). Carried the model into LIKE MAGIC, where it ran the journey until the orchestration was replaced (2022–2023)."
],
[
"Change management",
"Proficient",
"Replaced UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking's proprietary engineering process with a market-standard one as owner of its Analysis & Design discipline, coaching project teams into it (2004–2009). Drove LIKE MAGIC's productive rollout of AI assistants across planning, delivery and operations (2022–2026)."
],
[
"CI/CD",
"Proficient",
"Put Jenkins and Sonar in the SDLC toolchain UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank released inside (2009–2015). Wrote the delivery pipeline into 3AP's reference architecture so a project inherited it rather than arranging its own, Jenkins at Swisscard, Flawa iQ and Lost-Tag, CircleCI at Conperi and Ursina (2015–2022). Released Lost-Tag's iOS app to the App Store from a scripted pipeline (2016–2021). Made the build the gate on 3AP's platform, every branch analyzed on SonarCloud with coverage attached and a green mainline deploying itself to the cluster (2019–2021). Set LIKE MAGIC's standards on GitHub Actions, with unit and integration tests on every run (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Cloud architecture",
"Expert",
"Targeted 3AP's reference architecture at Kubernetes and no cloud in particular, so a client's platform was a deployment decision, Google Cloud at Aroov and Stay KooooK and AXA's own on-premise OpenShift (2015–2022). Ran 3AP's notification services on Swisscom's Cloud Foundry and Google Kubernetes Engine at the same time, one binding a broker as a managed service and the other running it as a container (2019). Owned LIKE MAGIC's production platform on Google Cloud (2022–2026). Designed GuestGraph for managed platform services without binding it to a provider (2026)."
],
[
"Community building",
"Expert",
"Built internal communities of practice at UBS and led the division's Java Chief Developer committee for two years (2004–2009). Co-led that committee for a further five years (2009–2015). Represented UBS in the Eclipse Modeling Platform Working Group (2010–2011). Co-organized the three Eclipse events UBS hosted in Zürich, MDD Day 2010 and Finance Day 2012 and 2014 (2010–2014). Served on the board of the Swiss Eclipse User Group within JUG Switzerland (2011–2014)."
],
[
"Company vision and strategy",
"Expert",
"Co-founded 3AP and sat on the management team that took it from 5 to about 70 people (2015–2022). Co-founded LIKE MAGIC and set its product, platform and AI strategy (2022–2026). Put two open-core products up for scrutiny with a billing model and a stated outcome each, a clean no included (2026)."
],
[
"Consulting",
"Proficient",
"Created the technical concepts, proposals and pitches for 3AP's client work as CTO and advised Credit Suisse, Swisscard, AXA and Mobiliar on the architecture behind theirs (2015–2022)."
],
[
"Container orchestration (Kubernetes)",
"Proficient",
"Built Conperi's platform on Google Kubernetes Engine from cluster creation up, GPU nodes included (2018–2020). Ran the Aroov and Stay KooooK backends on Google Kubernetes Engine (2019–2022). Stood up Ursina's whole environment, cluster, managed database, certificates, ingress and tunnels, from a script rather than a console (2020). Ran the LIKE MAGIC platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Context engineering",
"Expert",
"Built the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model as the organization's shared context layer and shipped it as a skill into the company's Claude environment (2022–2026). Generalized the approach into CompanyGraph, a published meta-model for describing a company as a graph both people and agents can read (2026). Briefed a podcast episode on the career break from the model's own files and read the generated result against its sources before publishing it (2026)."
],
[
"Conversational AI",
"Proficient",
"Architected the integration of d3x, ailean and onsai into LIKE MAGIC's staff solution, unified multi-channel guest messaging with AI agents answering, guest insights and staff handover (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Data engineering",
"Proficient",
"Fed Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository from static source-code analysis and several source systems (2016). Fed Flawa iQ's LoRaWAN telemetry into the ERP (2018–2019). Pulled 3AP's own staff directory and time records onto its platform, kept current by a scheduler rather than by anyone remembering (2019–2021). Built LIKE MAGIC's event and data hub, the sink for every business event its services published, ingested into BigQuery, idempotent on the event id so a redelivery cannot double-count and served back as a queryable event log (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Data governance",
"Competent",
"Built Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository so data stewards could be assigned and the golden-source distribution across the core systems mapped (2016)."
],
[
"Data modeling",
"Proficient",
"Built the canonical data model for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's enterprise data management (2009–2015). Presented Eclipse data modeling at enterprise scale at Eclipse Day Florence, co-presented with the CDO project lead (2012). Designed the organization model behind the Flatland CDO Server bitemporally, what was in force on a date and what the repository said on a date kept as separate questions (2014–2022)."
],
[
"Data protection (GDPR)",
"Competent",
"Ran LIKE MAGIC's GDPR compliance, including the guardrail that no internal context trained external LLMs (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Database design",
"Proficient",
"Designed DynaRep's repository on Oracle (2004–2009). Built the Swisscard rewrite on MSSQL (2015–2016). Set 3AP's reference architecture on MongoDB for AXA Health, Flawa iQ and Conperi, then moved it to PostgreSQL from Aroov onward once those platforms showed their data was read and written relationally (2015–2022). Ran LIKE MAGIC on PostgreSQL with R2DBC and jOOQ (2022–2026)."
],
[
"DevOps",
"Expert",
"Wrote the delivery pipeline into 3AP's reference architecture so a project inherited it rather than arranging its own, and established the company's delivery process and stack approvals (2015–2022). Built and ran LIKE MAGIC's production platform on Google Cloud as infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions running unit and integration tests on every change and the same team building and operating it (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Domain-driven design",
"Proficient",
"Drove UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's business architecture and capability modeling on EMF/Ecore, where a canonical data model was what every interface contract in the division was defined against (2009–2015). Cut LIKE MAGIC's platform along its 12 business domains and the capabilities under each, so service and team boundaries followed the domain rather than the technical layering (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Domain-specific language design",
"Expert",
"Built DynaRep's repository-based modeling tool and its code generators for UBS mainframe service interfaces (2004–2009). Defined data types, interfaces and service contracts platform-independently on EMF and Xtext for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank (2009–2015). Designed a reusable base vocabulary in Xcore for the Flatland CDO Server and an organization metamodel on top of it, where a derived feature is part of the language rather than code beside it (2014–2022)."
],
[
"Engineering leadership",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking and led the DynaRep project team of ten (2004–2009). Led the team that built UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's Eclipse-based tooling platform and architected the SDLC toolchain several hundred engineers released inside (2009–2015). Owned the frame 3AP's engineering happened in as CTO, the organization and its roles, the reference architecture and stack and the approvals every engagement passed, through its scale to about 70 people in two countries (2015–2022). Set LIKE MAGIC's technology direction and developed its technical leadership from a founding team to 25, holding the platform and AI budget (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Enterprise architecture",
"Expert",
"Architected the Integration Architecture Tool Chain for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank around a canonical data model, with a central API and interface-portfolio repository and a role-based review every team's interfaces passed (2009–2015). Presented its design to the Swiss financial-services community at Eclipse Finance Day (2013)."
],
[
"Event streaming",
"Proficient",
"Ran Kafka as the streaming backbone of Conperi's processing pipeline (2018–2020). Built Stay KooooK's services as producers and consumers on Spring Cloud Stream over a Google Cloud Pub/Sub binder, bindings declared per service and the transport swappable underneath (2020–2022). Carried that into LIKE MAGIC at 89M+ platform events a year (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Event-driven architecture",
"Expert",
"Wrote event-driven communication into 3AP's reference architecture, so the platforms built to it carried their work as events (2015–2022). Built Flawa iQ to consume LoRaWAN device uplinks over AMQP (2018–2019). Ran Conperi's pipeline over a Kafka backbone (2018–2020). Separated accepting a message from delivering one on 3AP's platform, a queue per channel, so a slow vendor delays delivery instead of failing the caller (2019–2021). Built Aroov's backend on Google Cloud Pub/Sub as its event hub (2019–2020). Published and consumed every LIKE MAGIC business event through Pub/Sub (2022–2026)."
],
[
"FinOps",
"Proficient",
"Held LIKE MAGIC's cloud and AI budget, governing spend across dev, test and production with consumption KPIs in the Mental Model and weekly actuals from the Google Cloud billing API routed to owners by role (2022–2026). Held platform cost flat as volume grew to 89M+ events a year, through database and code optimization rather than added capacity (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Frontend development",
"Proficient",
"Built the model browser published with the Flatland CDO Server in AngularJS (2014–2022). Built the Swisscom delivery cockpit's React front end (2015). Built the Angular front end over Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository (2016). Carried Lost-Tag into a browser, a hybrid mobile application and a native iOS app in AngularJS (2016–2021). Built AXA Health's React and Next.js frontend (2017–2019). Built a React front end for Flawa iQ's sensor MVP (2018–2019). Owned Stay KooooK's React and TypeScript frontend (2020–2022). Set LIKE MAGIC's frontend on React, TypeScript and MUI (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Identity and access management",
"Proficient",
"Wrote a plugin authenticating the Flatland CDO Server against LDAP, later taking bearer tokens at the REST boundary (2014–2022). Made identity 3AP's platform concern rather than each service's, Keycloak issuing tokens, social sign-in trusted into it and the gateway verifying before routing (2019–2021). Put Keycloak and OAuth2 in front of every route of the Ursina gateway, with a token relay written as a filter of its own because the framework's never refreshed the token (2020). Built zero-trust API boundaries into the LIKE MAGIC platform (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Incident management",
"Proficient",
"Owned incident response for LIKE MAGIC's production platform, from the alert an SLO breach raised to the fix, on a multi-tenant SaaS where one incident reaches every tenant at once (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Information security management",
"Competent",
"Built LIKE MAGIC's information-security management toward ISO 27001, in progress at exit, with GDPR compliance and zero-trust API boundaries (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Infrastructure as code",
"Competent",
"Built LIKE MAGIC's production platform as infrastructure as code on Google Cloud (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Integration architecture",
"Expert",
"Architected UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's Integration Architecture Tool Chain, built to reduce point-to-point connections to an integration bus over defined concepts and open interface standards (2009–2015). Owned AXA Health's complete integration architecture into Adcubum Syrius (2017–2019). Reached from a cloud application into a broadband operator's own HBase and PostgreSQL for Ursina, over tunnels that left neither exposed (2020). Integrated 3 PMS, Mews, Apaleo and Oracle OHIP, 15+ smart-lock systems and 3 AI communication vendors into LIKE MAGIC (2022–2026)."
],
[
"IoT architecture",
"Competent",
"Designed Flawa iQ's sensing and LoRaWAN connectivity and the backend ingesting device telemetry into the ERP (2018–2019)."
],
[
"IT governance",
"Expert",
"Set the role-based review process for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's central interface-portfolio repository (2009–2015). Ran delivery governance and technology-stack approvals at 3AP (2015–2022)."
],
[
"IT strategy",
"Expert",
"Owned technology strategy and the reference architecture every engagement had to fit as 3AP's CTO (2015–2022). Defined LIKE MAGIC's platform strategy, API-first with a managed public API, an event and data hub and an MCP-server layer as the direction so agents consume the platform directly (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Java",
"Expert",
"Built UBS's web portals in Java Portlets and JSP on IBM Portal Server (2001–2004). Built DynaRep's Eclipse plugins, web services and generators in Java (2004–2009). Built the Flatland CDO Server as an OSGi product in Java (2014–2022). Put Java and Spring Boot into 3AP's reference architecture so every platform built to it ran on them, Swisscard, AXA Health, Flawa iQ on Java 11, Conperi, Aroov and Stay KooooK (2015–2022). Ran LIKE MAGIC on Spring Boot and WebFlux (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Knowledge management",
"Proficient",
"Established communities of practice at UBS (2004–2009). Built the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model as the organization's shared context layer (2022–2026). Published CompanyGraph so the same layer can be kept as Markdown in a repository with a history (2026)."
],
[
"Legacy modernization",
"Proficient",
"Architected DynaRep, generating COBOL and Java implementations for UBS mainframe service interfaces (2004–2009). Replaced Swisscard's proprietary SOAP data-integration layer with Spring Boot behind the same WSDL contract, so no consumer had to change (2015–2016)."
],
[
"Machine learning",
"Familiar",
"Architected the pipeline, the labeling tool and the serving path for Conperi, 3AP's applied-research proof of concept with ZHAW for reading health-insurance invoices (2018–2020). Followed the modeling closely enough to build what it needed, GPU training nodes, a labeled dataset where none existed and held-out evaluation reported per document; the models themselves were ZHAW's"
],
[
"Mentoring and coaching",
"Proficient",
"Onboarded Java developers onto UBS's portal (2001–2004). Coached UBS project teams in the Analysis & Design methodology and built internal communities of practice (2004–2009). Mentored the engineers at 3AP as it scaled to about 70 people (2015–2022). Developed the technical leadership at LIKE MAGIC as it grew from 5 to 25 (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Microservices architecture",
"Expert",
"Authored 3AP's microservice reference architecture and built AXA Health, Flawa iQ and Aroov to it: event-driven, 12-factor, the service cut driven by business capability (2015–2022). Cut Lost-Tag into Spring Boot services behind a gateway with service discovery (2016–2021). Carried the architecture into LIKE MAGIC as the platform's own, booking, guest, profile, payment, door access, messaging, operation and analytics services, each contract-first and every vendor behind its own connector with a fallback path (2022–2026)."
],
[
"MLOps",
"Competent",
"Set up Conperi's training and serving split, a training service, a registry versioning each model with the metadata to reproduce it and a separate serving service so a model could be replaced without redeploying its consumers (2018–2020). It stayed a proof of concept, so nothing here covers drift, rollback or retraining in production"
],
[
"Model-driven engineering",
"Expert",
"Wrote the degree dissertation on Model-Driven Architecture for component-based and service-oriented architecture (2002–2006). Built UBS's DynaRep model-driven repository and code generator (2004–2009). Built the Eclipse-based Integration Architecture Tool Chain for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank on EMF, Xcore, Xtext and Xtend with a CDO repository (2009–2015). Spoke on models as the enterprise's first-class artifacts at Eclipse MDD Day (2010). Presented Eclipse data modeling at enterprise scale at Eclipse Day Florence (2012). Built the Flatland CDO Server, an Eclipse CDO model repository serving any model over REST without code written for that model (2014–2022). Built Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository on it (2016)."
],
[
"Multi-tenant SaaS architecture",
"Proficient",
"Built and scaled LIKE MAGIC's multi-tenant hospitality SaaS platform, serving 90+ customers, 430+ properties and 16,000+ units across the DACH region as of 2026 (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Observability",
"Proficient",
"Traced a message across a queue hand-off with Spring Cloud Sleuth on 3AP's platform, so one that never arrived could be followed past the hand-off rather than lost at it (2019–2021). Published a way to monitor a business process by its own model, a receive task and a timer per milestone, so a stalled journey announces itself (2021). Instrumented LIKE MAGIC's production platform on Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Trace with alerting driven by defined SLOs, traceability being a principle the services were built to rather than instrumentation added afterward (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Open-source stewardship",
"Proficient",
"Published the Flatland CDO Server under the Eclipse Public License and kept it public for eight years, forked by three strangers and used as the foundation of Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository (2014–2022). Published CompanyGraph and GuestGraph as open core under Apache 2.0: a license saying what is open and what could be paid for, conventions for a contributor, specs keeping the rejected alternatives and a release contract of tags and manifests (2026)."
],
[
"Organization design",
"Proficient",
"Defined UBS's department-wide role model, each role with its tasks and competencies, put through a formal consultation before it took effect (2004–2009). Described 3AP's own organization as a model rather than a chart on the Flatland CDO Server, circles inside circles, roles carrying responsibilities and assignments with a capacity and a validity window, answerable by date (2014–2022). Shaped 3AP's technology organization as it scaled to about 70 people, including a near-shore team in Serbia (2015–2022). Shaped LIKE MAGIC's as it grew to 25 (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Platform engineering",
"Expert",
"Architected the SDLC toolchain for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, Jira, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, Maven, Jenkins and Sonar (2009–2015). Built Conperi's platform from cluster creation to the Kafka backbone, tracing, the OAuth gateway and GPU nodes (2018–2020). Built the platform 3AP's own projects and internal systems started from, a running gateway, an identity provider and shared capabilities rather than an empty cluster (2019–2021). Owned the LIKE MAGIC platform as the product every team built on (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Process orchestration",
"Expert",
"Owned the Camunda (Zeebe) orchestration of the guest journey at Stay KooooK (2020–2022). Published a runnable sample of the journey on Zeebe with the article on monitoring it (2021). Carried the orchestration into LIKE MAGIC, then led the reassessment at contract renewal and the move off it (2022–2023). Co-presented the platform at CamundaCon in Berlin (2022). Featured in Camunda's published case study citing a 95% self-check-in rate and 7,000 process instances per month (2023)."
],
[
"Product discovery",
"Competent",
"Put CompanyGraph and GuestGraph up for scrutiny in the open, each with a talk, a billing model and a stated outcome including a clean no (2026)."
],
[
"Product management",
"Proficient",
"Defined and executed LIKE MAGIC's product and platform strategy as co-founder and Head of Technology, API-first with a managed public API, an event and data hub and three AI communication vendors integrated behind one staff inbox (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Public speaking",
"Proficient",
"Spoke at UBS-internal brown-bag sessions on modeling, toolchain and architecture (2009–2015). Spoke at Eclipse MDD Day on models as the enterprise's first-class artifacts (2010). Spoke at Eclipse Day Florence on data modeling at enterprise scale (2012). Spoke at Eclipse Finance Day on interface management in a large enterprise (2012). Spoke at Eclipse Finance Day on the UBS Integration Architecture Tool Chain (2013). Co-presented at CamundaCon in Berlin on how SV Group became a SaaS business on Camunda (2022). Gave a talk each on CompanyGraph and GuestGraph, deck, PDF and audio in German and English (2026)."
],
[
"Requirements engineering",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking's RUP rollout, replacing the proprietary process with a market-standard one, writing its modeling methodology in Rational Method Composer and coaching the division's teams into it (2004–2009). Modeled Lost-Tag's actors and their use cases before the platform was built (2016–2021). Writes a reviewed specification before every plan and build on CompanyGraph and GuestGraph (2026)."
],
[
"Site reliability engineering",
"Proficient",
"Owned site reliability for LIKE MAGIC's production platform across three environments, SLOs defined and alerted on, performance held as volume grew and automated weekly reporting against defined thresholds (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Software architecture",
"Expert",
"Led development and delivery of UBS's WPS Portal application (2001–2004). Took software-architect responsibility for UBS's DynaRep platform (2004–2009). Set the reference architecture every 3AP engagement was built to (2015–2022). Owned Stay KooooK's complete front-to-back architecture on reactive Spring Boot WebFlux (2020–2022). Designed GuestGraph's identity-resolution engine from a written specification (2026)."
],
[
"Software engineering",
"Expert",
"Built UBS's intranet and internet portals and the ACE Foundation beneath UBS Quotes (2001–2004). Architected and built DynaRep's Eclipse plugins, web services and code generators (2004–2009). Built the Swisscom delivery cockpit end to end (2015). Set the engineering practice of LIKE MAGIC's Spring Boot WebFlux platform, tests as part of finishing a feature rather than a phase after it (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Software modeling (UML, SysML, C4)",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in the Rational Unified Process rollout at UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking, its service-modeling methodology in Rational Method Composer and UML (2004–2009). Modeled Lost-Tag's actors, use cases, domain classes and components in UML in the repository, beside the code they describe (2016–2021). Modeled Cloud Foundry's and Kubernetes' vocabularies side by side in PlantUML on 3AP's platform, so what the two call the same thing could be read rather than argued about (2019–2021)."
],
[
"Software process engineering",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in the Rational Unified Process and Enterprise Unified Process rollout at UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking, replacing the proprietary process with a market standard (2004–2009). Architected the division's SDLC toolchain (2009–2015)."
],
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"Software testing",
"Proficient",
"Built the Swisscard rewrite on Jenkins and JUnit, with tests as engineering practice rather than a phase after the build (2015–2016). Made unit and integration tests part of how a feature was finished across 3AP's client engagements, new behavior covered at the level that catches its regression (2015–2022). Ran them on every LIKE MAGIC pipeline on GitHub Actions (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Solution architecture",
"Expert",
"Led 3AP's client bids on solution architecture, public tenders under Swiss procurement law included (2015–2022). Designed Flawa iQ's RFID and LoRaWAN solution, delivered as 10 working prototypes (2018–2019). Designed Ursina's runtime, the path into the operator's network and the authentication boundary (2020). Owned Stay KooooK's solution architecture front to back and presented it at the winning pitch (2020–2022)."
],
[
"Solution selling",
"Proficient",
"Led 3AP's client bids across proposal, pitch and negotiation, public tenders under Swiss procurement law included (2015–2022). Won Credit Suisse without a tender, a problem known inside the bank reached through the network and a proposed architecture rather than a specification (2016). Won AXA Health, Flawa iQ, Aroov and Stay KooooK on a solution architecture presented by the people who would build it (2017–2020). Put two open-core products in front of a professional network with a billing model each (2026)."
],
[
"Spec-driven development",
"Proficient",
"Built GuestGraph's identity-resolution engine and CompanyGraph, meta-model, tooling design and this reference instance, from written specifications, each reviewed before its plan and build, under conventions an agent pass enforces (2026)."
],
[
"Stakeholder management",
"Proficient",
"Advised clients including Credit Suisse, Swisscard, AXA and Mobiliar as 3AP's CTO and joined each project's ramp-up to negotiate with the client's security and platform organizations (2015–2022). Presented the solution architecture in the winning Aroov pitch (2019). Presented the solution architecture in the winning Stay KooooK pitch (2020)."
],
[
"Storytelling",
"Proficient",
"Briefed a podcast episode on the career break, fixing the story in outline and the threads the hosts had to cover before anything was generated, then holding the result to its sources and naming the one place it strayed (2026)."
],
[
"Technical writing",
"Expert",
"Wrote the Analysis & Design methodology and guidance a UBS division worked to (2004–2009). Published an article on process monitoring with BPMN, with the runnable sample it describes (2021). Built the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model as the organization's written context layer (2022–2026). Wrote CompanyGraph's conventions, design specs and worked example, prose other people follow for readers who were not in the room (2026)."
],
[
"Vendor management",
"Proficient",
"Ran LIKE MAGIC's AI and automation tooling as a managed portfolio: Claude Code team licenses, multi-provider tooling across Claude, Gemini and Copilot and the call to self-host n8n on its own Kubernetes rather than take the hosted service (2022–2026). Led the same call on Camunda at contract renewal, where the platform used a fraction of the engine and the choice was to build on it or leave it (2022–2023)."
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"Agentic AI development",
"Expert",
"Built LIKE MAGIC's internal AI marketplace on Claude, giving teams governed access to assistants and agents grounded in the Mental Model (2022–2026). Built CompanyGraph and GuestGraph agent-first under written conventions that encode the failure modes: an unresolvable reference is an error rather than a warning, and every validation pass names what it did not check (2026)."
],
[
"Agile delivery",
"Competent",
"Served as Scrum Master and technical lead on central UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank initiatives (2009–2015). Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner (2016)."
],
[
"AI governance",
"Proficient",
"Defined LIKE MAGIC's AI governance and held the company to it: a Human Oversight principle, guardrails against training external LLMs on internal context, multi-provider tooling and cost governance (2022–2026)."
],
[
"AI strategy",
"Proficient",
"Authored and executed LIKE MAGIC's company-wide AI strategy, from the internal rollout of assistants across planning, delivery and operations to shipped customer-facing AI, with d3x, ailean and onsai integrated into the staff solution (2022–2026)."
],
[
"AI tool integration (MCP)",
"Competent",
"Wired Atlassian, Google Drive and Slack MCP servers into the agent that maintained the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model, each command scoped to a named allowlist of tools, so the knowledge base stayed in step with the systems it described (2022–2026). No server authored: the platform's own MCP layer was still roadmap at exit, as CompanyGraph's is now"
],
[
"API design",
"Expert",
"Established API and data management for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank with generated XML-Schema and WSDL service contracts (2009–2015). Set 3AP's reference architecture so the service cut decided what each service exposed (2015–2022). Gave Stay KooooK its API surface from the first commit, REST specified in OpenAPI, generated from the code and secured by OAuth 2.0 (2020–2022). Led LIKE MAGIC's API-first strategy to a partner API documented in the open, REST on OpenAPI 3.1 with webhook subscriptions and OAuth 2.0 scopes over property, reservation, guest, messaging, door access and task resources (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Business architecture",
"Expert",
"Drove business architecture and capability modeling on EMF/Ecore at UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank (2009–2015). Mapped LIKE MAGIC's 12 business domains as concepts with the capabilities under each, and cut the platform, the teams and the product strategy along that map (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Business process modeling (BPMN, DMN)",
"Proficient",
"Modeled the guest journey from booking to check-out in Camunda BPMN for Stay KooooK (2020–2022). Published the model as the subject of an article on monitoring a process by the message it is still waiting for (2021). Carried the model into LIKE MAGIC, where it ran the journey until the orchestration was replaced (2022–2023)."
],
[
"Change management",
"Proficient",
"Replaced UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking's proprietary engineering process with a market-standard one as owner of its Analysis & Design discipline, coaching project teams into it (2004–2009). Drove LIKE MAGIC's productive rollout of AI assistants across planning, delivery and operations (2022–2026)."
],
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"CI/CD",
"Proficient",
"Put Jenkins and Sonar in the SDLC toolchain UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank released inside (2009–2015). Wrote the delivery pipeline into 3AP's reference architecture so a project inherited it rather than arranging its own, Jenkins at Swisscard, Flawa iQ and Lost-Tag, CircleCI at Conperi and Ursina (2015–2022). Released Lost-Tag's iOS app to the App Store from a scripted pipeline (2016–2021). Made the build the gate on 3AP's platform, every branch analyzed on SonarCloud with coverage attached and a green mainline deploying itself to the cluster (2019–2021). Set LIKE MAGIC's standards on GitHub Actions, with unit and integration tests on every run (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Cloud architecture",
"Expert",
"Targeted 3AP's reference architecture at Kubernetes and no cloud in particular, so a client's platform was a deployment decision, Google Cloud at Aroov and Stay KooooK and AXA's own on-premise OpenShift (2015–2022). Ran 3AP's notification services on Swisscom's Cloud Foundry and Google Kubernetes Engine at the same time, one binding a broker as a managed service and the other running it as a container (2019). Owned LIKE MAGIC's production platform on Google Cloud (2022–2026). Designed GuestGraph for managed platform services without binding it to a provider (2026)."
],
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"Community building",
"Expert",
"Built internal communities of practice at UBS and led the division's Java Chief Developer committee for two years (2004–2009). Co-led that committee for a further five years (2009–2015). Represented UBS in the Eclipse Modeling Platform Working Group (2010–2011). Co-organized the three Eclipse events UBS hosted in Zürich, MDD Day 2010 and Finance Day 2012 and 2014 (2010–2014). Served on the board of the Swiss Eclipse User Group within JUG Switzerland (2011–2014)."
],
[
"Company vision and strategy",
"Expert",
"Co-founded 3AP and sat on the management team that took it from 5 to about 70 people (2015–2022). Co-founded LIKE MAGIC and set its product, platform and AI strategy (2022–2026). Put two open-core products up for scrutiny with a billing model and a stated outcome each, a clean no included (2026)."
],
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"Consulting",
"Proficient",
"Created the technical concepts, proposals and pitches for 3AP's client work as CTO and advised Credit Suisse, Swisscard, AXA and Mobiliar on the architecture behind theirs (2015–2022)."
],
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"Container orchestration (Kubernetes)",
"Proficient",
"Built Conperi's platform on Google Kubernetes Engine from cluster creation up, GPU nodes included (2018–2020). Ran the Aroov and Stay KooooK backends on Google Kubernetes Engine (2019–2022). Stood up Ursina's whole environment, cluster, managed database, certificates, ingress and tunnels, from a script rather than a console (2020). Ran the LIKE MAGIC platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Context engineering",
"Expert",
"Built the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model as the organization's shared context layer and shipped it as a skill into the company's Claude environment (2022–2026). Generalized the approach into CompanyGraph, a published meta-model for describing a company as a graph both people and agents can read (2026). Briefed a podcast episode on the career break from the model's own files and read the generated result against its sources before publishing it (2026)."
],
[
"Conversational AI",
"Proficient",
"Architected the integration of d3x, ailean and onsai into LIKE MAGIC's staff solution, unified multi-channel guest messaging with AI agents answering, guest insights and staff handover (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Data engineering",
"Proficient",
"Fed Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository from static source-code analysis and several source systems (2016). Fed Flawa iQ's LoRaWAN telemetry into the ERP (2018–2019). Pulled 3AP's own staff directory and time records onto its platform, kept current by a scheduler rather than by anyone remembering (2019–2021). Built LIKE MAGIC's event and data hub, the sink for every business event its services published, ingested into BigQuery, idempotent on the event id so a redelivery cannot double-count and served back as a queryable event log (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Data governance",
"Competent",
"Built Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository so data stewards could be assigned and the golden-source distribution across the core systems mapped (2016)."
],
[
"Data modeling",
"Proficient",
"Built the canonical data model for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's enterprise data management (2009–2015). Presented Eclipse data modeling at enterprise scale at Eclipse Day Florence, co-presented with the CDO project lead (2012). Designed the organization model behind the Flatland CDO Server bitemporally, what was in force on a date and what the repository said on a date kept as separate questions (2014–2022)."
],
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"Data protection (GDPR)",
"Competent",
"Ran LIKE MAGIC's GDPR compliance, including the guardrail that no internal context trained external LLMs (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Database design",
"Proficient",
"Designed DynaRep's repository on Oracle (2004–2009). Built the Swisscard rewrite on MSSQL (2015–2016). Set 3AP's reference architecture on MongoDB for AXA Health, Flawa iQ and Conperi, then moved it to PostgreSQL from Aroov onward once those platforms showed their data was read and written relationally (2015–2022). Ran LIKE MAGIC on PostgreSQL with R2DBC and jOOQ (2022–2026)."
],
[
"DevOps",
"Expert",
"Wrote the delivery pipeline into 3AP's reference architecture so a project inherited it rather than arranging its own, and established the company's delivery process and stack approvals (2015–2022). Built and ran LIKE MAGIC's production platform on Google Cloud as infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions running unit and integration tests on every change and the same team building and operating it (2022–2026)."
],
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"Domain-driven design",
"Proficient",
"Drove UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's business architecture and capability modeling on EMF/Ecore, where a canonical data model was what every interface contract in the division was defined against (2009–2015). Cut LIKE MAGIC's platform along its 12 business domains and the capabilities under each, so service and team boundaries followed the domain rather than the technical layering (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Domain-specific language design",
"Expert",
"Built DynaRep's repository-based modeling tool and its code generators for UBS mainframe service interfaces (2004–2009). Defined data types, interfaces and service contracts platform-independently on EMF and Xtext for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank (2009–2015). Designed a reusable base vocabulary in Xcore for the Flatland CDO Server and an organization metamodel on top of it, where a derived feature is part of the language rather than code beside it (2014–2022)."
],
[
"Engineering leadership",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking and led the DynaRep project team of ten (2004–2009). Led the team that built UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's Eclipse-based tooling platform and architected the SDLC toolchain several hundred engineers released inside (2009–2015). Owned the frame 3AP's engineering happened in as CTO, the organization and its roles, the reference architecture and stack and the approvals every engagement passed, through its scale to about 70 people in two countries (2015–2022). Set LIKE MAGIC's technology direction and developed its technical leadership from a founding team to 25, holding the platform and AI budget (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Enterprise architecture",
"Expert",
"Architected the Integration Architecture Tool Chain for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank around a canonical data model, with a central API and interface-portfolio repository and a role-based review every team's interfaces passed (2009–2015). Presented its design to the Swiss financial-services community at Eclipse Finance Day (2013)."
],
[
"Event streaming",
"Proficient",
"Ran Kafka as the streaming backbone of Conperi's processing pipeline (2018–2020). Built Stay KooooK's services as producers and consumers on Spring Cloud Stream over a Google Cloud Pub/Sub binder, bindings declared per service and the transport swappable underneath (2020–2022). Carried that into LIKE MAGIC at 89M+ platform events a year (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Event-driven architecture",
"Expert",
"Wrote event-driven communication into 3AP's reference architecture, so the platforms built to it carried their work as events (2015–2022). Built Flawa iQ to consume LoRaWAN device uplinks over AMQP (2018–2019). Ran Conperi's pipeline over a Kafka backbone (2018–2020). Separated accepting a message from delivering one on 3AP's platform, a queue per channel, so a slow vendor delays delivery instead of failing the caller (2019–2021). Built Aroov's backend on Google Cloud Pub/Sub as its event hub (2019–2020). Published and consumed every LIKE MAGIC business event through Pub/Sub (2022–2026)."
],
[
"FinOps",
"Proficient",
"Held LIKE MAGIC's cloud and AI budget, governing spend across dev, test and production with consumption KPIs in the Mental Model and weekly actuals from the Google Cloud billing API routed to owners by role (2022–2026). Held platform cost flat as volume grew to 89M+ events a year, through database and code optimization rather than added capacity (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Frontend development",
"Proficient",
"Built the model browser published with the Flatland CDO Server in AngularJS (2014–2022). Built the Swisscom delivery cockpit's React front end (2015). Built the Angular front end over Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository (2016). Carried Lost-Tag into a browser, a hybrid mobile application and a native iOS app in AngularJS (2016–2021). Built AXA Health's React and Next.js frontend (2017–2019). Built a React front end for Flawa iQ's sensor MVP (2018–2019). Owned Stay KooooK's React and TypeScript frontend (2020–2022). Set LIKE MAGIC's frontend on React, TypeScript and MUI (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Identity and access management",
"Proficient",
"Wrote a plugin authenticating the Flatland CDO Server against LDAP, later taking bearer tokens at the REST boundary (2014–2022). Made identity 3AP's platform concern rather than each service's, Keycloak issuing tokens, social sign-in trusted into it and the gateway verifying before routing (2019–2021). Put Keycloak and OAuth2 in front of every route of the Ursina gateway, with a token relay written as a filter of its own because the framework's never refreshed the token (2020). Built zero-trust API boundaries into the LIKE MAGIC platform (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Incident management",
"Proficient",
"Owned incident response for LIKE MAGIC's production platform, from the alert an SLO breach raised to the fix, on a multi-tenant SaaS where one incident reaches every tenant at once (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Information security management",
"Competent",
"Built LIKE MAGIC's information-security management toward ISO 27001, in progress at exit, with GDPR compliance and zero-trust API boundaries (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Infrastructure as code",
"Competent",
"Built LIKE MAGIC's production platform as infrastructure as code on Google Cloud (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Integration architecture",
"Expert",
"Architected UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's Integration Architecture Tool Chain, built to reduce point-to-point connections to an integration bus over defined concepts and open interface standards (2009–2015). Owned AXA Health's complete integration architecture into Adcubum Syrius (2017–2019). Reached from a cloud application into a broadband operator's own HBase and PostgreSQL for Ursina, over tunnels that left neither exposed (2020). Integrated 3 PMS, Mews, Apaleo and Oracle OHIP, 15+ smart-lock systems and 3 AI communication vendors into LIKE MAGIC (2022–2026)."
],
[
"IoT architecture",
"Competent",
"Designed Flawa iQ's sensing and LoRaWAN connectivity and the backend ingesting device telemetry into the ERP (2018–2019)."
],
[
"IT governance",
"Expert",
"Set the role-based review process for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank's central interface-portfolio repository (2009–2015). Ran delivery governance and technology-stack approvals at 3AP (2015–2022)."
],
[
"IT strategy",
"Expert",
"Owned technology strategy and the reference architecture every engagement had to fit as 3AP's CTO (2015–2022). Defined LIKE MAGIC's platform strategy, API-first with a managed public API, an event and data hub and an MCP-server layer as the direction so agents consume the platform directly (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Java",
"Expert",
"Built UBS's web portals in Java Portlets and JSP on IBM Portal Server (2001–2004). Built DynaRep's Eclipse plugins, web services and generators in Java (2004–2009). Built the Flatland CDO Server as an OSGi product in Java (2014–2022). Put Java and Spring Boot into 3AP's reference architecture so every platform built to it ran on them, Swisscard, AXA Health, Flawa iQ on Java 11, Conperi, Aroov and Stay KooooK (2015–2022). Ran LIKE MAGIC on Spring Boot and WebFlux (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Knowledge management",
"Proficient",
"Established communities of practice at UBS (2004–2009). Built the LIKE MAGIC Mental Model as the organization's shared context layer (2022–2026). Published CompanyGraph so the same layer can be kept as Markdown in a repository with a history (2026)."
],
[
"Legacy modernization",
"Proficient",
"Architected DynaRep, generating COBOL and Java implementations for UBS mainframe service interfaces (2004–2009). Replaced Swisscard's proprietary SOAP data-integration layer with Spring Boot behind the same WSDL contract, so no consumer had to change (2015–2016)."
],
[
"Machine learning",
"Familiar",
"Architected the pipeline, the labeling tool and the serving path for Conperi, 3AP's applied-research proof of concept with ZHAW for reading health-insurance invoices (2018–2020). Followed the modeling closely enough to build what it needed, GPU training nodes, a labeled dataset where none existed and held-out evaluation reported per document; the models themselves were ZHAW's"
],
[
"Mentoring and coaching",
"Proficient",
"Onboarded Java developers onto UBS's portal (2001–2004). Coached UBS project teams in the Analysis & Design methodology and built internal communities of practice (2004–2009). Mentored the engineers at 3AP as it scaled to about 70 people (2015–2022). Developed the technical leadership at LIKE MAGIC as it grew from 5 to 25 (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Microservices architecture",
"Expert",
"Authored 3AP's microservice reference architecture and built AXA Health, Flawa iQ and Aroov to it: event-driven, 12-factor, the service cut driven by business capability (2015–2022). Cut Lost-Tag into Spring Boot services behind a gateway with service discovery (2016–2021). Carried the architecture into LIKE MAGIC as the platform's own, booking, guest, profile, payment, door access, messaging, operation and analytics services, each contract-first and every vendor behind its own connector with a fallback path (2022–2026)."
],
[
"MLOps",
"Competent",
"Set up Conperi's training and serving split, a training service, a registry versioning each model with the metadata to reproduce it and a separate serving service so a model could be replaced without redeploying its consumers (2018–2020). It stayed a proof of concept, so nothing here covers drift, rollback or retraining in production"
],
[
"Model-driven engineering",
"Expert",
"Wrote the degree dissertation on Model-Driven Architecture for component-based and service-oriented architecture (2002–2006). Built UBS's DynaRep model-driven repository and code generator (2004–2009). Built the Eclipse-based Integration Architecture Tool Chain for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank on EMF, Xcore, Xtext and Xtend with a CDO repository (2009–2015). Spoke on models as the enterprise's first-class artifacts at Eclipse MDD Day (2010). Presented Eclipse data modeling at enterprise scale at Eclipse Day Florence (2012). Built the Flatland CDO Server, an Eclipse CDO model repository serving any model over REST without code written for that model (2014–2022). Built Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository on it (2016)."
],
[
"Multi-tenant SaaS architecture",
"Proficient",
"Built and scaled LIKE MAGIC's multi-tenant hospitality SaaS platform, serving 90+ customers, 430+ properties and 16,000+ units across the DACH region as of 2026 (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Observability",
"Proficient",
"Traced a message across a queue hand-off with Spring Cloud Sleuth on 3AP's platform, so one that never arrived could be followed past the hand-off rather than lost at it (2019–2021). Published a way to monitor a business process by its own model, a receive task and a timer per milestone, so a stalled journey announces itself (2021). Instrumented LIKE MAGIC's production platform on Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Trace with alerting driven by defined SLOs, traceability being a principle the services were built to rather than instrumentation added afterward (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Open-source stewardship",
"Proficient",
"Published the Flatland CDO Server under the Eclipse Public License and kept it public for eight years, forked by three strangers and used as the foundation of Credit Suisse's Master Data Repository (2014–2022). Published CompanyGraph and GuestGraph as open core under Apache 2.0: a license saying what is open and what could be paid for, conventions for a contributor, specs keeping the rejected alternatives and a release contract of tags and manifests (2026)."
],
[
"Organization design",
"Proficient",
"Defined UBS's department-wide role model, each role with its tasks and competencies, put through a formal consultation before it took effect (2004–2009). Described 3AP's own organization as a model rather than a chart on the Flatland CDO Server, circles inside circles, roles carrying responsibilities and assignments with a capacity and a validity window, answerable by date (2014–2022). Shaped 3AP's technology organization as it scaled to about 70 people, including a near-shore team in Serbia (2015–2022). Shaped LIKE MAGIC's as it grew to 25 (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Platform engineering",
"Expert",
"Architected the SDLC toolchain for UBS Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, Jira, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, Maven, Jenkins and Sonar (2009–2015). Built Conperi's platform from cluster creation to the Kafka backbone, tracing, the OAuth gateway and GPU nodes (2018–2020). Built the platform 3AP's own projects and internal systems started from, a running gateway, an identity provider and shared capabilities rather than an empty cluster (2019–2021). Owned the LIKE MAGIC platform as the product every team built on (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Process orchestration",
"Expert",
"Owned the Camunda (Zeebe) orchestration of the guest journey at Stay KooooK (2020–2022). Published a runnable sample of the journey on Zeebe with the article on monitoring it (2021). Carried the orchestration into LIKE MAGIC, then led the reassessment at contract renewal and the move off it (2022–2023). Co-presented the platform at CamundaCon in Berlin (2022). Featured in Camunda's published case study citing a 95% self-check-in rate and 7,000 process instances per month (2023)."
],
[
"Product discovery",
"Competent",
"Put CompanyGraph and GuestGraph up for scrutiny in the open, each with a talk, a billing model and a stated outcome including a clean no (2026)."
],
[
"Product management",
"Proficient",
"Defined and executed LIKE MAGIC's product and platform strategy as co-founder and Head of Technology, API-first with a managed public API, an event and data hub and three AI communication vendors integrated behind one staff inbox (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Public speaking",
"Proficient",
"Spoke at UBS-internal brown-bag sessions on modeling, toolchain and architecture (2009–2015). Spoke at Eclipse MDD Day on models as the enterprise's first-class artifacts (2010). Spoke at Eclipse Day Florence on data modeling at enterprise scale (2012). Spoke at Eclipse Finance Day on interface management in a large enterprise (2012). Spoke at Eclipse Finance Day on the UBS Integration Architecture Tool Chain (2013). Co-presented at CamundaCon in Berlin on how SV Group became a SaaS business on Camunda (2022). Gave a talk each on CompanyGraph and GuestGraph, deck, PDF and audio in German and English (2026)."
],
[
"Requirements engineering",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking's RUP rollout, replacing the proprietary process with a market-standard one, writing its modeling methodology in Rational Method Composer and coaching the division's teams into it (2004–2009). Modeled Lost-Tag's actors and their use cases before the platform was built (2016–2021). Writes a reviewed specification before every plan and build on CompanyGraph and GuestGraph (2026)."
],
[
"Site reliability engineering",
"Proficient",
"Owned site reliability for LIKE MAGIC's production platform across three environments, SLOs defined and alerted on, performance held as volume grew and automated weekly reporting against defined thresholds (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Software architecture",
"Expert",
"Led development and delivery of UBS's WPS Portal application (2001–2004). Took software-architect responsibility for UBS's DynaRep platform (2004–2009). Set the reference architecture every 3AP engagement was built to (2015–2022). Owned Stay KooooK's complete front-to-back architecture on reactive Spring Boot WebFlux (2020–2022). Designed GuestGraph's identity-resolution engine from a written specification (2026)."
],
[
"Software engineering",
"Expert",
"Built UBS's intranet and internet portals and the ACE Foundation beneath UBS Quotes (2001–2004). Architected and built DynaRep's Eclipse plugins, web services and code generators (2004–2009). Built the Swisscom delivery cockpit end to end (2015). Set the engineering practice of LIKE MAGIC's Spring Boot WebFlux platform, tests as part of finishing a feature rather than a phase after it (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Software modeling (UML, SysML, C4)",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in the Rational Unified Process rollout at UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking, its service-modeling methodology in Rational Method Composer and UML (2004–2009). Modeled Lost-Tag's actors, use cases, domain classes and components in UML in the repository, beside the code they describe (2016–2021). Modeled Cloud Foundry's and Kubernetes' vocabularies side by side in PlantUML on 3AP's platform, so what the two call the same thing could be read rather than argued about (2019–2021)."
],
[
"Software process engineering",
"Expert",
"Owned the Analysis & Design discipline in the Rational Unified Process and Enterprise Unified Process rollout at UBS Wealth Management & Business Banking, replacing the proprietary process with a market standard (2004–2009). Architected the division's SDLC toolchain (2009–2015)."
],
[
"Software testing",
"Proficient",
"Built the Swisscard rewrite on Jenkins and JUnit, with tests as engineering practice rather than a phase after the build (2015–2016). Made unit and integration tests part of how a feature was finished across 3AP's client engagements, new behavior covered at the level that catches its regression (2015–2022). Ran them on every LIKE MAGIC pipeline on GitHub Actions (2022–2026)."
],
[
"Solution architecture",
"Expert",
"Led 3AP's client bids on solution architecture, public tenders under Swiss procurement law included (2015–2022). Designed Flawa iQ's RFID and LoRaWAN solution, delivered as 10 working prototypes (2018–2019). Designed Ursina's runtime, the path into the operator's network and the authentication boundary (2020). Owned Stay KooooK's solution architecture front to back and presented it at the winning pitch (2020–2022)."
],
[
"Solution selling",
"Proficient",
"Led 3AP's client bids across proposal, pitch and negotiation, public tenders under Swiss procurement law included (2015–2022). Won Credit Suisse without a tender, a problem known inside the bank reached through the network and a proposed architecture rather than a specification (2016). Won AXA Health, Flawa iQ, Aroov and Stay KooooK on a solution architecture presented by the people who would build it (2017–2020). Put two open-core products in front of a professional network with a billing model each (2026)."
],
[
"Spec-driven development",
"Proficient",
"Built GuestGraph's identity-resolution engine and CompanyGraph, meta-model, tooling design and this reference instance, from written specifications, each reviewed before its plan and build, under conventions an agent pass enforces (2026)."
],
[
"Stakeholder management",