Engineering Contracting

Senior Engineer for your team.

Experienced Tech Lead and DevOps Engineer — embedded directly, productive from day one. No onboarding overhead, no recruiting risk.

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What you get

15+ years of experience in software engineering and DevOps. From startup to enterprise.

Tech Lead with a focus on DevOps
15+ years Software Engineering
Villigen, Schweiz

Core competencies

Backend Engineering

Python, FastAPI, event-driven microservices, PostgreSQL, REST APIs

AI Engineering

LLM integration into existing backends, RAG systems, agentic workflows, MCP servers, self-hosted LLMs

Event Streaming

Apache Kafka, event-driven microservices, event sourcing, schema registry, Kafka Streams — from design to production operations

Cloud & Platform

Multi-cloud & private cloud, Kubernetes, monitoring with Grafana & Prometheus

DevOps & Infrastructure

Kubernetes, Terraform/CDKTF, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Helm

Architecture & Leadership

Microservices design, Kafka event streaming, monorepo strategy, team mentoring, workshops

Tech Stack

Python
FastAPI
Vue.js
TypeScript
Kafka
Kubernetes
Terraform

Selected references

Axpo

Software Engineer (Contract)

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025

DevOps modernization at one of Switzerland's largest energy companies. Monorepo consolidation, Azure DevOps → GitHub Actions migration, CDK for Terraform, CI/CD professionalization.

Legartis

Tech Lead

Dec 2019 – Nov 2024

Technical leadership of the backend team at a legal-tech startup. Django → FastAPI migration, Kafka event architecture, multi-cloud Kubernetes (Exoscale, AWS, Azure), LLM pipeline.

What teams say about working with us

Technically excellent, flexible, uncomplicated — and helped us not only move forward, but become more professional.

Team LeadAxpo

I've never seen anyone iterate over software that fast.

Product OwnerLegartis

The progress over the last two years was incredible. I'm glad we chose to work together back then.

CTOLegartis

Brings an incredible level of seniority to the team, which is extremely valuable for us.

Team LeadAxpo

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