Fabio Hecht
Senior Software Engineer at SIX
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFabio Hecht is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable data platforms and APIs, currently focused on real-time data ingestion and sharing at SIX after a multi-year tenure at Swisscom. He specializes in Kafka-based streaming architectures, API management (Apigee, Layer7), OAuth, and designing CI/CD-driven Java microservices to enable automation and data-driven decision making. His background spans hands-on platform operation, connector implementation, and designing secure, consumable APIs for large telcos and insurers. Fabio holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universität Zürich and began his career building web and P2P video systems, a foundation that informs his pragmatic approach to distributed systems. Notably, he combines deep academic research experience with practical on-site consulting, making him comfortable translating complex architectures into operational solutions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Summa cum laude at Universität ZürichBS, CS, BS, CS at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
German, English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (98)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fabiohecht/LiveShift
Aug 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:9 commits in 3 months
fabiohecht/kafka-bookstore-tutorial
May 2018 - May 2018
A Kafka Tutorial with Kafka Connect, KSQL, and Kafka Streams.
Contributions:72 commits, 1 PR, 53 pushes in 19 days
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