Lukas Heiniger

Head Of IT & Technology at Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Lukas Heiniger is a seasoned software and technology leader with 14 years of experience, currently Head of IT & Technology at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) in Zurich. He blends hands-on software architecture and DevOps skills with domain expertise in geophysics, having led real-time hazard and risk forecasting projects and a grant-backed spin-off preparatory effort. A pragmatic founder of a mobile time-tracking startup and long-time contributor to open-source media tooling, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and production-grade engineering to collaborative, interdisciplinary teams. Known for rapid learning and a preference for digging deep rather than skimming the surface, he pairs scientific rigor from ETH Zurich with practical embedded and backend experience dating back to his apprenticeship and early telematics work.
code14 years of coding experience
job13 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster of Science (MS), Geophysics, Master of Science (MS), Geophysics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
bookDiploma (Eidg. Dipl. Ing. FH), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Diploma (Eidg. Dipl. Ing. FH), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanyang Technological University
bookDiploma (Eidg. Dipl. Ing. FH), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Diploma (Eidg. Dipl. Ing. FH), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Applied Sciences, HSR
languagesEnglish, French, German
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Github Skills (14)

enterprise-integration10
configuration-management10
openelec10
servicebus10
python10
integrations10
system-integration10
scripting9
devops9
filesystem9
file-management9
shell9
script9
sh9

Programming languages (6)

ShellMakefileObjective-CRubyMarkdownPython

Github contributions (5)

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OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv

Apr 2012 - May 2012

OpenELEC - The living room PC for everyone
Role in this project:
userBack-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily contributes to the `SABnzbd-Suite` service within the `openelec/openelec.tv` repository. Their work focuses on integrating SABnzbd, CouchPotato, SickBeard, and Headphones, including setting configurations and dependencies. They are responsible for setting up the service's directories, settings files and launching these services. The user has also made changes to logging and wake-up functionality.
vmsliving-roomxbmclinuxroom
3rdcycle/csv2db

Jul 2014 - Aug 2017

Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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Lukas Heiniger - Head Of IT & Technology at Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich