Felix Bachmair
Director Market Strategy & Innovation
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Bachmair is a senior engineering leader and Director of Market Strategy & Innovation based in the Zürich area with 13 years of experience bridging product, hardware-focused engineering and strategic growth. He combines a PhD in elementary particle physics from ETH Zurich with hands-on production engineering experience at DECTRIS, leading electrical testing, software and R&D teams to deliver high-reliability instrumentation. Felix pairs technical rigor—evident from embedded/IoT contributions like improving a Raspberry Pi jukebox’s hardware control and test suites—with a strategic mindset for innovation, patent portfolio management and market alignment. Comfortable moving between low-level hardware interfaces and cross-functional strategy, he also brings recent upskilling in AI and big data for managers from the University of St.Gallen. Notably, his background shows a practical willingness to refactor and harden legacy systems for long-term maintainability while scouting emerging technologies to drive competitive advantage.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CAS Big Data & Artificial Intelligence for Managers, CAS Big Data & Artificial Intelligence for Managers at University of St.GallenDiplom Physiker, Elementary Particle Physics, Diplom Physiker, Elementary Particle Physics at RWTH Aachen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics at ETH Zurich
Github Skills (8)
gpio10
raspberry10
embedded10
sys10
python10
testing9
rfid8
audio8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
A Raspberry Pi jukebox, playing local music, podcasts, web radio and streams triggered by RFID cards, web app or home automation. All plug and play via USB. GPIO scripts available.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily focused on improving the Raspberry Pi jukebox's functionality by refactoring code and migrating dependencies. They addressed flake8 issues and removed f-strings for Python 3.5 compatibility, suggesting a focus on code quality and cross-version compatibility. They also removed dependencies on gpiozero and switched to RPi.GPIO, indicating a shift towards lower-level hardware interaction and control. The addition of test suites for a RotaryEncoder further points to involvement in hardware control and testing.
streamsusbhome-automationrfid-jukeboxpodcasts
psi46/elComandante
Nov 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:148 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years
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