André Schild
CTO at NGFT Consulting
Ipsach, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Schild is a Swiss technology leader and CTO with 13 years of professional experience and a career-long engagement in software development, teaching, and technical leadership. He leads development at aarboard ag and NGFT Consulting while also instructing IT subjects at multiple institutions, blending hands-on engineering with adult education expertise. His open-source work includes significant backend contributions to the JAVE Java wrapper for ffmpeg, showing practical experience in multimedia encoding and low-level integration. Trained with a Diplom FH in Informatik and certified in adult education, he combines formal academic grounding with a talent for translating complex technical topics into teachable material. Based in Ipsach, Bern, he is comfortable operating across product strategy, system architecture, and developer mentoring, often connecting real-world engineering constraints with classroom pedagogy. A not-obvious strength is his sustained parallel career in professional development and core engineering, enabling rapid knowledge transfer between industry practice and teaching.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom FH, Informatik, Diplom FH, Informatik at Fachhochschule BielSchweizerischer Erwachsenenbildner Stufe 1, Schweizerischer Erwachsenenbildner Stufe 1 at IBZ Schulen für Technik Informatik Wirtschaft Brugg
German, French, English
Github Skills (14)
video-processing10
video-compression10
audio10
encode10
javas10
audio-processing10
ffmpeg10
decode10
sound-processing10
encoding10
java10
decoding10
signal-processing10
java-libraries9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
a-schild/jave2
Mar 2013 - Jul 2022
The JAVE (Java Audio Video Encoder) library is Java wrapper on the ffmpeg project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 4 reviews, 206 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:André's contributions primarily focused on the development of the JAVE (Java Audio Video Encoder) library. The initial commit introduced the core Java classes, including the Encoder and supporting classes, for audio/video encoding functionality. Subsequent commits involved the implementation of methods for retrieving supported encoders/decoders, format parsing, and setting up the parameters for the encoding process. Further commits included improvements in output processing and metadata handling during the encoding/decoding phase.
audio-videojaveffmpeg-wrapperdecoderaudio
a-schild/churchtools-wp-calendarsync
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Synchronise churchtools calendar with wordpress events manager
Contributions:5 releases, 6 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 5 months
calendar-eventschurchtoolssynchronizationwordpress-plugin
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