Emily A
DevOps Engineer at Swisscom
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolEmily A is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience who blends cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD automation and systems engineering to deliver reliable production platforms. With an academic foundation in Computer Engineering (B.Eng) and a MSc in Computer Science & Software Engineering, she has built container orchestration and pipeline solutions for clients at 4data.ch and now contributes to Swisscom’s DevOps efforts. Her hands-on work spans Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab CI and artifacts management, and includes open-source package maintenance—notably modernizing the shairport-sync Synology package to automate builds and service integration. She pairs backend and automation expertise with data-driven curiosity, having created Dash/Plotly dashboards and SQL pipelines for scientific R&D at Syngenta. A lifelong learner, teacher and communicator, she mentors others (Django Girls, Women Who Code) and brings empathy and collaboration to technical problem solving. Outside engineering she’s a poet and avid reader, which influences her clear technical writing and thoughtful approach to complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bootcamp Python, Bootcamp Python at Django Girls' Workshop(Bootcamp) Certificate in Wordpress Open API Information Technology, (Bootcamp) Certificate in Wordpress Open API Information Technology at Girls in Tech Global Classroom StartUp Bootcamp Breakthrough Program Business, StartUp Bootcamp Breakthrough Program Business at Girls in Tech Seoul(Bootcamp) Coding101 and Python Intermediate (Data Analysis) Python, (Bootcamp) Coding101 and Python Intermediate (Data Analysis) Python at Fast campus (패스트캠퍼스)(Bootcamp) Certificate of Qualification Internet of Things with Arduino , (Bootcamp) Certificate of Qualification Internet of Things with Arduino at Korea Human Resource Development InstituteBachelor of Engineering - B.Eng Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - B.Eng Computer Engineering at Gachon UniversityMaster of Science - MS (CS-SE) Computer Science and Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS (CS-SE) Computer Science and Software Engineering at Constructor Group(Bootcamp) CodeHive Class Information Technology, (Bootcamp) CodeHive Class Information Technology at Akirachix
English, Korean, Swahili, German
Github Skills (17)
package-management10
synology10
scripting10
automation10
script10
system-integration10
build-automation10
sh10
automations10
shell10
devops10
dockers9
linux9
docker9
embedded8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SynoCommunity/spksrc
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Cross compilation framework to create native packages for the Synology's NAS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software EngineerContributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 46 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the development of the `shairport-sync` package for Synology NAS devices, focusing on build and deployment automation. Their work involved transitioning from `shairport` to `shairport-sync`, modifying the build process, and adding firewall rules. The user implemented the necessary start/stop scripts, configured the service, and upgraded the shairport-sync version. These changes indicate significant involvement in package management and system integration.
synologycompilationcdrnascross-compilation
lost-carrier/netatmo-api
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Netatmo Java API (unofficial)
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 11 commits in 2 years 9 months
apinetatmounofficial-apijava-apijava
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