Work Experience

My professional journey in software development

UBS, Zurich June 2020 - Present

January 2024 - Current

Technical Leadership: Direct a 10-person engineering team to cultivate high-performance collaborative practices and technical excellence
API Architecture: Design and build low-latency REST APIs powering complex mortgage credit decision workflows, ensuring 100% test coverage
Performance Optimization: Pioneered Embedded Kafka integration, leveraging Failsafe and parallelization to slash test execution time by over 50%
Modernization Strategies: Drive seamless library and framework lifecycle upgrades utilizing OpenRewrite automation recipes
AI-Augmented Engineering: Heavily leveraged the Microsoft Copilot IntelliJ plugin in daily enterprise workflows since Q4 2025, drastically accelerating iterative coding, intricate system design drafting, and dense test generation
Quality Assurance: Champion rigorous DevOps pipelines, clean code principles, and shift-left testing methodologies across the enterprise

January 2023 - December 2023

Core Backend Services: Developed highly scalable Spring Boot REST APIs to drive automated end-to-end client onboarding workflows
Enterprise Security: Engineered a dedicated authentication microservice featuring zero-trust JWT integration and granular RBAC
Testing Infrastructure: Established a multi-layer testing matrix utilizing REST Assured, Cucumber, JUnit 5, and Mockito
Load & Performance: Spearheaded Gatling adoption, successfully embedding automated load testing directly into continuous integration pipelines

June 2020 - December 2022

Infrastructure Leadership: Led a 10-engineer team responsible for high-availability client data infrastructure and regulatory compliance systems
Complex API Design: Architected dual REST and GraphQL APIs featuring bidirectional data flows and complex regulatory engines (FINIG, MiFID)
DevOps & Automation: Established robust CI/CD deployment pipelines, utilizing Cucumber for scalable business-driven development
Operational Telemetry: Designed real-time Splunk intelligence dashboards to visualize live trading application metrics
System Reliability: Integrated AppDynamics and MMonit for comprehensive proactive monitoring and immediate incident mitigation

Spring Boot Microservices REST API GraphQL PostgreSQL Gatling Cucumber

HCL Technologies, Zurich August 2017 - May 2020

Client Integration: Deployed at Credit Suisse, engineering mission-critical applications to support highly scalable global trading systems
Domain Architecture: Built and optimized data stores for complex banking regulations, secure user provisioning, and client entity management
Service Interoperability: Developed robust SOAP and RESTful web services seamlessly exposing protected client data to downstream systems
Batch Processing Systems: Engineered high-performance Oracle PL/SQL Stored Procedures targeting asynchronous, high-volume batch data operations

Java SOAP REST Oracle PLSQL

ZoralisSA, Fribourg April 2016 - August 2017

Java Enterprise Applications

NTTDATA, Bangalore/Bern May 2010 - March 2016

Java Consulting

Java 17 SQL PLSQL JavaScript

Spring Boot Spring Security Hibernate JPA

JUnit 5 Mockito REST Assured Cucumber Gatling

PostgreSQL Oracle H2

Git Maven Jenkins Docker Splunk AppDynamics

Google Antigravity Microsoft Copilot Agent Orchestration Prompt Engineering Autonomous Systems

REST GraphQL Microservices Multi-Tenancy