Summary
Luca Christen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with 10 years of experience building cloud-native and full-stack solutions across finance, R&D, and startups. He has led development of platforms in open banking and health, designed micro-frontend architectures, and delivered serverless backends on Microsoft Azure. Early experience in banking gave him strong practice in risk-focused .NET systems, while subsequent roles exposed him to hardware-integrated R&D workflows and IT infrastructure management. As co-owner of a small firm he drove product features from website TypeScript migrations to automated CV aggregation and blogging, showing a blend of product-minded engineering and delivery. He also has hands-on experience managing off-shore teams and modernizing legacy systems (C++ to C#), making him effective at bridging research prototypes to production-grade software.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Swiss federal vocational baccalaureate for commercial professions, Swiss federal vocational baccalaureate for commercial professions at Bildungszentrum Zürichsee
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at ZHAW School of Engineering
German, English, French