Joel Ambass
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJoel Ambass is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of hands-on experience building production software across startups and large platforms. He has progressed from apprenticeship-level engineering to senior roles at GitHub and, more recently, as a Microsoft FTE working on GitHub projects, blending product-focused development with platform-scale engineering. Joel's background spans full lifecycle delivery at companies like ElectricFeel and 08EINS, and he brings practical Swiss vocational training in Informatik alongside real-world mentorship of junior engineers. Comfortable in both fast-moving startup environments and highly scaled orgs, he has a track record of shipping reliable features that bridge developer experience and backend robustness. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, steady under pressure, and quietly curious—evidenced by an early side career as a junior photographer that hints at an eye for detail beyond code.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Informatiker EFZ Informatik, Informatiker EFZ Informatik at Gewerbliche Berufsschule Chur
German, English, schweizer deutsch
Github Skills (200)
realtime10
error-handler10
testing10
proxy10
ruby10
file-upload10
stacktrace10
monkey-patching10
command-line-tool10
factories10
rubygems10
chaos10
lru10
cache-storage10
html10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Jcambass/hintme
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
stupid simple CLI Client for devhints.io
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
cli
Jcambass/sane_patch
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Making monkey patches sane again
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 2 months
patchminecraftmonkeypatchesmruby
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