Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Heya 👋 Alex here, thanks for stopping by! I'm passionate about building safe and secure software at scale to improve people's lives. 8+ years of proven experience doing highly scalable Software Development and Systems Architecture. Proven commercial expertise in both human-first as well as AI-first Software Engineering. Former tech Founder and CTO, I have an extensive track record of successfully leading Engineering and Product teams in web2, web3, early stage startups and national high-security organizations. Focused primarily on architecture, backend development and systems programming, but I can also proficiently handle complex JS-based frontends - especially React and NextJs. And just because in this new AI-age it bears clarification: by "handle" I mean I'm able to proficiently - using my own head, knowledge and fingers - actually write every single line of code on the keyboard, and also debug it later on, because I've actually understood from the beginning what it does and why. All this in addition to being able to design, supervise and develop in a fully AI-first multi-agent orchestration approach, using my own cutting-edge framework for building production-grade software using AI agents at scale, already proven in massive codebases (+500k lines of code, testing code not included). Generally I tend to be programming language-agnostic, though I really prefer daily work in languages that are statically-typed, memory safe and with developed functional programming features. As you might have noticed from my posts, I therefore love Rust 🦀 I believe that great software engineering happens when the right tool for the job is used, with mindful application and focusing on the main thing that matters irrespective of anything else: that the software being created is adding significant value in a responsible way to its users. You can learn more about me at aragalie.com, where you can also get free access to my "AI-first Software Engineering Playbook", a collection of actionable insights and guidance on how to create actual production-ready software with AI agents.
Only available for freelance contracts on an hourly basis, at SF / Zurich FAANG-level rates for Staff/Principal Engineer. Proven expertise in both human-first as well as AI-first Software Engineering. Based in Zurich 🇨🇭 and working FULLY REMOTE only, exclusively on the CET timezone, NO travel or on-site presence. Please note: I AM NOT interested in full time jobs, per-hour only. On the open Internet, I have extensive experience in developing full stack platforms with scalable backend architectures, particularly on GCP and AWS, using serverless infrastructure and IaC tooling such as Terraform or SST, with persistent data storage on both NoSQL databases like DynamoDb as well as SQL-based such as Postgres. I’ve also worked in highly secure, military-grade environments and networks, where I’ve architected, directly coded and supervised deployment of low latency, high throughput & high availability client-server software platforms. Backend-wise I've built codebases at scale with Rust 🦀 and Node.js On the frontend I have significant experience building complex apps with Typescript, React and Next.js. Management-wise I have a proven track record of successfully leading Engineering, Product and Operations teams in web2 and web3 startups, security-sensitive organizations and large multinationals. On a 1-1 basis I’ve been mentoring and nurturing high-performance individuals in Software Engineering, Project Management and Sales for more than a decade; feel free to browse the recommendations on my profile here for more details. Technologies and programming languages I'm very comfortable working with: Rust 🦀 TypeScript, Javascript Node.js NextJs, React WASM (WebAssembly) AWS, GCP, Azure Docker, Kubernetes DynamoDB, Firebase, MongoDB PostgreSQL, SQL, SQlite, MySQL, NoSQL Serverless, AWS CDK, SST.dev NGINX Vue, Svelte SCSS, Tailwind Jest, Cypress, Vitest Jinja, Tera, Askama HTMX, HTML, CSS Actix, Axum, Rocket, Warp, Tide Tokyo, Tauri Bash, Linux CLI Bevy
Keeping our airspace safe through advanced #defensetech Building resilient platform technology for high throughput & low latency monitoring and analysis of streaming real-time Radar data, for both military and civilian use. In addition to architecting complex systems, I'm also doing hands-on coding for the entirety of my work time, in a Human-first manner, without any AI whatsoever. I’m also leading a Radar Software Engineering team at RUAG, focused on developing next generation full stack software platforms for large scale data monitoring in highly secure military environments. Amongst others, I've been working extensively with proprietary Thales radar hardware and software technology, as well as the public ASTERIX radar data format. Rust 🦀 JavaScript, TypeScript React, Next.js, Node.js
Web3 venture-backed startup building a monetization platform for gaming content creators (e.g. Twitch and YouTube streamers). Shut down middle of 2023 as the lead investor pulled out from continuing to fund the team due to crypto market downturn. All assets of the startup (code, IP, Trademarks), including the web domains NFME.com and NFME.org are available for sale; you can send me a DM if you’re interested, but please note: no crypto, fiat only and fully legit, meaning lawyers involved etc. Rust 🦀 React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Next.js AWS, SST, CDK Solidity Rive, Figma
The world's first Sports Development System, helping young athletes achieve more. Used by 20+ national-level sports federations in Switzerland 🇨🇭 and DACH region, including top sports such as football, ice hockey and volleyball, from youth to elite-level olympic athletes. Voted in 2022 as the most loved app in the world in its category, as assessed by an independent global panel of professional expert coaches. React, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, Next.js, Tailwind, Webpack, Jest Firebase (Firestore, Authentication, Cloud Functions, Storage, etc.), GCP Google Cloud Data analysis in Python (JupyterNotebooks, Google Colab) Figma
Built up and managed the European Marketing Services team (20+ people), providing shared-services for the entire Marketing function (500+ marketers in 30+ countries)
Completed 60+ packaging and new product launch projects for major brands like Oreo, Barni, Belvita, Tang