Pierre-Yves Ritschard

Building technology to write better code, faster

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in designing and implementing critical systems, and the teams to support them.

Experience

  • Founding Engineer and CTO at Poolside
    Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • CTO at Exoscale
    Sep 2012 - Sep 2023 · 11 yrs 1 mo

    Grew the product and company from 3 to 90+ people and from 0 revenue to an 8 figure business. Led a 40+ engineer team and oversaw the design and implementation of several critical components of Exoscale's core technology including orchestration facilities and storage systems.

  • Developer at OpenBSD
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2020 · 13 yrs 1 mo

    The OpenBSD project delivers the most secure operating system in the world. I integrated the team in 2007 to focus on kernel and userland network issues. My main contribution has been the hoststated load-balancing daemon, but I have contributed to other areas like pf, ospfd and bgpd.

  • Backend and Scalability Architect at Smallrivers
    Jul 2011 - Aug 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • VP - Platform at Milestone Lab
    Sep 2010 - Jul 2011 · 11 mos

    Milestone Lab is building a video platform destined for multiple interfaces. We have been building a strong development culture around state of the art technology to face the challenges bigdata, high traffic and personalization confront an architecture with.