Marc Balmer
Inhaber at Micro Systems Marc Balmer
Gipf-Oberfrick, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarc Balmer is a Swiss open-source systems expert and entrepreneur with over three decades running Micro Systems and leading R&D at ticketing? arcapos!. He specializes in Unix/Linux, kernel and userland development, and PostgreSQL deployments, with notable past contributions to OpenBSD and NetBSD including kernel drivers and time-signal receiver support. Marc blends consulting, hands-on development and teaching—he has lectured and helped design curricula at the FHNW and holds SVEB trainer certification. His background includes leading technology and innovation at Helvetia Versicherungen, where he introduced early internet, firewall and Java initiatives on enterprise mainframes. Based in Gipf-Oberfrick, he favors pragmatic open-source solutions for commercial environments and often bridges low-level systems work with practical operational deployment. An understated strength is his long-term continuity: running his own firm since the early 1990s while contributing to critical open-source OS projects.
14 years of coding experience
Universität Baselesa-Experte, esa-Experte at Bundesamt für SportAusbilder SVEB, Ausbilder SVEB at SVEB Schweizerischer Verband für Weiterbildung
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (172)
mobile-development10
postgresql10
messaging10
windows10
recovery10
cpp10
concurrency10
app-framework10
stream10
skia10
dart10
database10
gobject10
gobject-introspection10
mysql10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mbalmer/lgi
May 2020 - Apr 2026
Dynamic Lua binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years
gobject-introspectionlualua-bindinggobjectintrospection
arcapos/luapgsql
Apr 2012 - Mar 2022
Lua binding for PostgreSQL
Contributions:7 releases, 147 commits, 5 PRs in 10 years
lua-bindingpostgresql
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