Christian Herzog
Head Of IT at Physics Department, ETH Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Herzog is Head of IT at ETH Zurich's Physics Department with 14 years of professional experience and a PhD in physics from ETH. He combines deep scientific training in integrated optics, quantum electronics and ferroelectrics with hands-on systems and software skills across Perl, Ruby on Rails, C, Java, PHP, Linux/OS X administration and Apache. Known for pronounced analytical skills and a quick intellectual grasp, he oversees complex lab IT infrastructures while still contributing code and features to open-source projects such as an ESP32-based multiroom Squeezelite streamer. His work bridges experimental science and practical engineering—tuning low-level system behavior, managing networking states, and improving user interfaces for embedded devices. Based in Zurich, he brings a rare mix of research rigor and pragmatic full‑stack development to academic IT operations.
15 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (14)
esp3210
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
c119
sys9
live-update9
firmware9
html9
c179
embedded9
updater9
json8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sle118/squeezelite-esp32
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
ESP32 Music streaming based on Squeezelite, with support for multi-room sync, AirPlay, Bluetooth, Hardware buttons, display and more
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 61 pushes, 29 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end of the ESP32 music streaming project. Their work included improvements to the user interface, such as UI cleanup and the addition of firmware upload features. They also modified back-end code by adjusting resampling defaults, managing JSON timers related to Wi-Fi connection, and addressing various configuration and connection states within the Wi-Fi manager.
airplaybluetoothesp32hardware
daduke/LMSController
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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