Sam Zurcher

Digitization of in-store processes.

• Kotlin
• Android

Digitization of a business process.

• Kotlin
• Angular
• Kafka

Digitization of a business process.

• Kotlin
• Angular
• Camunda

Responsible for a major WTO offer. Included designing a substantial system and developing it in a 5 week proof of concept.

• Prototype for an Android app with a custom speech command model. Apr 2020 – Aug 2020
  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Android
  • Kotlin
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Docker
• Prototype for a Chat application. Mar 2020 – May 2020
  • Google Dialogflow
  • Angular
  • Firebase
  • Kotlin
  • Ktor
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Docker
• Prototype for an Android app with a custom object detection model. Aug 2019 – Jul 2021
  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Android
  • Kotlin
  • Google DataFlow
  • OpenCV

Data Analysis on a large data set.

• Python
• Pandas

Digitization of business processes.

• Project Manager Apr 2019 – Mar 2020
• Android Developer
  • Kotlin
  • RXJava

• Senior Software Engineer in the Backend Team Jun 2017 – Oct 2017
• Quality Manager, responsible for overall quality, processes, and efficiency. Apr 2016 – Jun 2017
• Head Post-DEV, responsible for the testing, customer support, and infrastructure teams. Apr 2016 – Jun 2017
• Deputy Project Manager of a sizeable team of software engineers. Sep 2015 – Apr 2016
• Team Leader of a team of approximately eight software engineers. Apr 2015 – Apr 2016
• Member of the Tech Lead group that is responsible for technical decisions. Nov 2014 – Sep 2015
• Senior Software Engineer in the Backend Team Sep 2013 – Apr 2016
  • 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.
  Show 2 more

  • Introducing new guidelines for requirements engineering / story creation.
  • Being part of a team of developers dealing with support cases and bug reports.

Development of a search engine exploring an alternative User Experience Design. Together with Werner Hartmann.

• Java 6
• Spring 3.0
• Tomcat
• nginx
• Guava
• JUnit
• Apache Commons
• Memcached
• Javascript
• JQuery
• Google Closure Library
• Google Closure Compiler
• JsTestDriver
• AWS EC2
• AWS S3
• AWS SimpleDB
• AWS Elastic MapReduce
• scalr.net
• Apache Hadoop

Tasks

• Developing ideas for an alternative search engine. (with Werner Hartmann)
• Implementing a prototype of the search engine. Technology stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JQuery, Heroku.
• User testing the prototype version (Werner Hartmann with others)
• Implementing a production version.

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
  • 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
  • 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.
  Show 8 more

  • 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. Two assignments: April – August 2006 and April – November 2007.

Achievements

• Setting up computer labs in both the girls' and boys' hostels including wiring for the internet connection. Thanks to the labs in the hostels, more students got access to the computers more frequently and it made a real difference to them.
• Creating a web-based system for publication of student results. Conducting requirements analysis together with the staff of the Samtse College of Education. Implementation in Ruby on Rails.
• Creating a web-based system for anonymous student feedback for different classes and various units / subjects. Conducting requirements analysis together with Helvetas and staff of the Samtse College of Education. Implementation in Ruby on Rails. Available on Samtse College of Education intranet.
• Organizing and conducting ICT workshops for lecturers of the Samtse and Paro Colleges of Education: two weeks in 2006 (introduction to programming with Kara, HTML, CSS, and Javascript) and a one-week continuation in 2007 (Javascript).

Software engineering 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.