David Weber
Head Of Shared Platform Services
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Weber is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience who currently heads Shared Platform Services at Helvetia Baloise, driving platform strategy, architecture and integration through a major merger. Hands-on across cloud-native stacks, he has built and operationalized event-driven architectures, Kubernetes/OpenShift GitOps pipelines, Kafka ecosystems and OIDC/Keycloak identity solutions while coaching teams and delivering developer-friendly platforms. A practical full-stack engineer and contributor to notable open-source projects like Backstage, he has improved TechDocs, plugins and API catalog navigation, and tightened TypeScript best practices in community boilerplate projects. He also trains engineers in Kafka and Keycloak, combining deep technical craft with a talent for translating complex landscapes into sustainable, self-service platforms. Notably, his background includes launching Swisscom’s PaaS offering and transforming enterprise processes for large Swiss firms, reflecting a blend of product delivery and operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Information Technology at Fernfachhochschule SchweizEFZ Informatik Systemtechnik, EFZ Informatik Systemtechnik at PricewaterhouseCoopersDipl. Informatik IT, Dipl. Informatik IT at TEKO Basel
German, English
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
expressjs10
restful-api10
typescript10
backstage10
web-developer10
typescript-types10
portal10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
api-design9
boilerplate9
validation8
validations8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 9 commits, 43 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Backstage project by implementing features and fixing bugs across various components. They integrated a fetch resolver for AsyncAPI documentation, added features to the Tech Insights plugin for tech scorecard components, and made enhancements to the TechDocs addon for LightBox functionality. They also improved the navigation of the ADR plugin and the catalog/API tables, and added features to the Kafka plugin by adding the dashboard URL feature.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
w3tecch/ng1-ts-boilerplate
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 64 commits, 52 PRs in 4 months
karma-webpackkarmaangularjsangularwebpack
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