Summary
Manuel Aschwanden is an Informatiklehrer and software engineer with nine years of experience bridging product management, customer-facing roles, and hands-on software delivery. After a business-focused start and an MBA, he deepened his technical skills with a university computer science continuing education and pivoted from defining product vision to building solutions at Zühlke, including computer-vision automation for metal manufacturing and an interactive health platform. He combines strong stakeholder empathy from roles at Swisscom and Synergy BTC with practical engineering craft across prototyping and production. Now teaching informatics, he brings real-world project experience into the classroom, translating complex systems thinking into learnable skills. Known for moving between strategic product decisions and low-level implementation, he thrives on understanding not just what is possible but how it works. Based in Bern, Switzerland, he blends business acumen with applied software engineering to deliver impact across industry and education.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Minor (60 ECTS), Informatik, Bachelor Minor (60 ECTS), Informatik at University of Bern
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Betriebswirtschaft mit Schwerpunkt Wirtschafsinformatik, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Betriebswirtschaft mit Schwerpunkt Wirtschafsinformatik at Universität Bern
German, English, French, Spanish