Christian Seiler
Senior Vice President at Helbling Technik
Wil (SG), St. Gallen, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Seiler is a Senior Vice President and R&D leader with 15+ years of experience guiding product development and novel technologies from lab to market, backed by a PhD in Physical Chemistry and an International Executive MBA. He has built and scaled teams, secured over CHF 20M in project funding, and led multi-million-franc R&D programs across sensors, optics, combustion, and process technologies. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and executive decision-making, he blends rigorous scientific methodology with pragmatic, execution-focused management. An entrepreneurial thinker and coach, he has a track record of founding new divisions and turning research into commercial offerings. Outside of work he applies his precision and creativity to race cars and inventive cooking, and he also contributes to notable open-source infrastructure like the LXC Linux Containers project, evidencing continued systems-level technical involvement.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
International Executive MBA HSG in General Management, Business Administration and Management, General, International Executive MBA HSG in General Management, Business Administration and Management, General at Universität St.Gallen (HSG)Chemistry, Chemistry at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physical Chemistry at ETH Zürich
German, English, French
Github Skills (5)
c1710
linux-containers10
c1110
networking10
cgroups10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lxc/lxc
Nov 2011 - May 2014
LXC - Linux Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the LXC (Linux Containers) project by implementing several core features and addressing various issues. They modified the code to set the high byte of MAC addresses for host veth devices, preventing potential MAC address changes in bridge configurations. The user also added functionality related to capabilities management, including adding CAP_SYSLOG and CAP_WAKE_ALARM and implementing a function to determine CAP_LAST_CAP dynamically. Further contributions included improvements to the cgroup and attach functionalities.
containerslinuxdockerlxclinux-containers
chris-se/tiny-initramfs
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
A minimalistic initrd implementation
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
discordinitrdminimalistic
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