Alain Sahli is a seasoned software leader and VP of Professional Services based in Bern with 13 years of hands-on engineering and executive experience spanning founder, COO and CEO roles. He combines deep technical craftsmanship—TDD, Agile, CI—and low-level backend work (notably contributing to spring-cloud-aws) with strategic delivery of enterprise web applications for government and insurance clients. Known for building high-quality teams, he focuses on resilient, non-blocking and event-driven Scala ecosystems in his free time, bringing practical expertise in distributed architectures. His career blends entrepreneurial grit from running a two-person agency with senior operational leadership at Mimacom, making him equally fluent in code, delivery and business strategy.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Sciences with a specialization in Computer Perception and Virtual Reality, Bachelor, Computer Sciences with a specialization in Computer Perception and Virtual Reality at Bern University of Applied Sciences Engineering and Information Technology
CFC, Computer Science, CFC, Computer Science at Technical High School (LTSI)
All development has moved to https://github.com/awspring/spring-cloud-aws Integration for Amazon Web Services APIs with Spring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:317 commits, 14 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alain made several changes to the core file structures of the project, including upgrading the Gradle build and making it less environment specific. They addressed the creation of a database and also added methods for the database platform support class. They implemented changes related to S3 resources including improvements for the exists method and the implementation of a new message format.
Contributions:65 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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