Sam Zurcher

Digitization of a business process.

• Project Lead July 2021 - present
• Senior Software Engineer July 2021 - present

Digitization of a business process.

• Senior Software Engineer September 2020 - December 2020
  Technologies:

  • Kotlin
  • Angular
  • Camunda

Responsible for a major WTO offer; together with Raimond Reichert. Included design a substantial system and developing a substantial system in a 5 week proof of concept.

• Prototype for an Android app with a custom speech command model. April 2020 - August 2020
  Technologies:

  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Android
  • Kotlin
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Docker
• Prototype for a Chat application. March 2020 - May 2020
  Technologies:

  • Google Dialogflow
  • Angular
  • Firebase
  • Kotlin
  • Ktor
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Docker
• Prototype for an Android app with a custom object detection model. August 2019 - July 2021
  Technologies:

  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Android
  • Kotlin
  • Google DataFlow
  • OpenCV

Data Analysis on a large data set.

• Data Scientist December 2019 - present
  Technologies:

  • Python
  • Pandas

Digitization of business processes.

• Project Lead January 2019 - August 2023

• Project Lead (together with Raimond Reichert) April 2019 - March 2020
• Android Developer November 2017 - March 2020
  Technologies:

  • Kotlin
  • RXJava

First steps with Machine Learning and Data Science. Two week educuational project together with Raimond Reichert. Analyzing and processing real world data with Pandas / scikit-learn.

Learning MeteorJS. Two week educuational project together with Raimond Reichert.

Learning NodeJS / AngularJS. Two week educuational project together with Raimond Reichert.

• Senior Software Engineer in the Backend Team June 2017 - October 2017
• Quality Manager, responsible for overall quality, processes, and efficiency. April 2016 - June 2017
• Head Post-DEV, responsible for a testing, customer support, and infrastructure teams. April 2016 - June 2017
• Deputy Project Lead of a sizeable team of software engineers. September 2015 - April 2016
• Team Leader of a team of approximately eight software engineers. April 2015 - April 2016
• Member of the Tech Lead group that is responsible for technical decisions. November 2014 - September 2015
• Senior Software Engineer in the Backend Team September 2013 - April 2016
  Technologies:

  • Java
  • JEE
  • Guava
  • ElasticSearch

  Achievements

  • Introducing, implementing, and enforcing a convention for the format of TODO / FIXME.
  • Introducing the Allegro Academy: A set of tasks a new team member has to complete when starting in the team.
  • Initiating the creation of a development virtual machine and maintaining it.
  • Mentor for new employees.
  • Introducing new guidelines for requirements engineering / story creation.
  • Being part of a team of developers dealing with support cases and bug reports.

Development of an Search Engine exploring an alternative User Experience Design. Together with Werner Hartmann.

Software Engineer in the Delivery Center Online Order (Neo). Neo is the new order entry replacing eOrders (see below). Neo is developed by approximately 25 people. Based on JSF and closely integrated with Siebel using aMind.

• Software Engineer January 2013 - August 2013
  Technologies:

  • Java
  • JSF
  • Siebel
  • aMind

  Achievements

  • Observing, conducting, and evaluating pair programming interviews.
  • Contributing questions for the Neo Academy. The academy is supposed to help people to get started faster with Neo.
  • Active participation in process definition to accommodate the growing team.
  • Implementation of performance improvements.

Software Engineer in the Delivery Center Online Order (eOrders). eOrders allows customers, 3rd party and Swisscom agents to order Swisscom wireline products. eOrders is developed by a team of approximately eight (2008) to 16 (2012) people. Since mid of 2008, the eOrders team has transformed into a Scrum team.

• Software Engineer January 2013 - August 2013
  Technologies:

  • Java 6
  • JBoss / Tomcat
  • Struts 1.2
  • JUnit / Selenium / Selenium Grid / EC2
  • Javascript / JQuery / JsTestDriver
  • GWT
  • Drools
  • Guava / Apache Commons

  Achievements

  • Conducting over 20 pair programming interviews with potential external and internal candidates (2010 - 2012)
  • Introducing the eOrders academy: A set of tasks a new team member has to complete when starting in our team. Helps to expedite the integration of new team members and saves the time of the existing team members. Highly relevant as on an average, we exchange approximately half of our team members after a year.
  • Introducing Selenium Grid on Amazon EC2. Decreasing execution time of the selenium test suite from 1h+ to less than 20 minutes. Direct positive impact on development as this reduces the duration of the feedback loop dramatically.Together with Thomas Arni and Franziska Meyer.
  • Introducing change set analysis for selenium tests. Given a change set, we can calculate which selenium tests are potentially affected and run only those. Reduces execution time of selenium tests. Together with Michael Qvortrup.
  • Introducing an in-app tutorial for the Product Availability Checker
  • Presenting our continuous integration and web tests infrastructure in two internal brown bag talks.
  • Implementing a system monitoring tool (together with Thomas Kausch).
  • Introducing Drools, JQuery, and JsTestDriver (together with Patrick Ruckstuhl).
  • Improving the existing development setup by using an SSD and a virtual image. clean-build time improved by a factor five to ten and therefore our development speed increased substantially. Together with other team members.
  • Introducing and conducting technical pair programming interviews. Besides the traditional interviews, both external and internal candidates have a three hour technical pair programming interview. During that interview, candidates have to navigate an existing project environment and solve a task in that environment. During the interview, we try to assess current knowledge and experience, potential for development, problem solving skills, getting things done, and cultural fit.
  • Talk on how we introduced Scrum in our team (Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Together with Christian Heldstab, Christian Wieland, Patrick Ruckstuhl, and Frank Beeh.
  • Winning of the Swisscom Champion Award 2010 for development of the Swisscom Produktassistent (GWT). Together with Raimond Reichert, Roger Fuhrer, Massoud Abbaszadeh, and Stefan Ruetimann.

Advising and supporting lecturers and staff of the Samtse College of Education in the areas of computer infrastructure, computer network, computer literacy, and programming.Part of the STEP project. In collaboration with Swiss Civil Service.

Advising and supporting lecturers and staff of the Samtse College of Education in the areas of computer infrastructure, computer network, computer literacy, and programming.Part of the STEP project. In collaboration with Swiss Civil Service.

Internship. Development in Java. Supervised by Jay Han / Heike Schmitz.

Tasks included executing daily duties, supporting content masters in technical aspects of their work, and collaborating with others to further develop SwissEduc. 10%-20% job.