Marcel Waldvogel
Enterprise Security Architect at Trifence
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcel Waldvogel is an Enterprise Security Architect based in Switzerland with 12 years of focused experience adding security and privacy to applications, especially under adverse and constrained environments. He blends academic rigor—years as a professor and researcher with a PhD from ETH Zürich—with hands-on engineering and operational experience from co-founding startups and improving production infrastructure. Marcel prioritizes simplicity, usability, and mobility when designing defenses, producing surprisingly efficient solutions for human cooperation, intrusion prevention, and industrial systems. He contributes to open source and DevOps projects (notably improving automation and dynamic HTTPS management in the popular https-portal project) and has a strong background in localization and user-facing clarity from work on real-time chat software. Marcel’s career spans roles from research labs to town council and executive IT leadership, reflecting an unusual mix of technical depth, public service, and product-minded pragmatism. This combination lets him turn complex security requirements into practical, easy-to-adopt solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Doktor (Ph.D.) at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMatura, Matura at Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland, Filialabteilung GlattalPhD, PhD at ETH ZürichWashington University in St. Louis
English, German, French
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Github Skills (25)
cron10
xmpp10
javascript10
docker10
configuration-management10
internationalization10
dockers10
automation10
xmp10
localization10
automations10
nginx10
devops10
scripting9
letsencrypt9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
SteveLTN/https-portal
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
A fully automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let's Encrypt and Docker.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Marcel focused on improving the infrastructure and automation of the `https-portal` project. Their commits include implementing and refining the certificate renewal process using cron jobs, enhancing the configuration management system, and making the Nginx configuration more modular. They also introduced the ability for on-the-fly reconfiguration and dynamic domain support, adding flexibility to the deployment.
dockerhttps-servernginx
jsxc/jsxc
May 2014 - Feb 2018
:speech_balloon: Real-time xmpp chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily focused on improving the language consistency and user-friendliness of the application by updating language files. They made significant modifications to the `jsxc.lib.js` file, including adding, modifying, and translating various UI strings across multiple languages (English and German). These changes aimed to improve the user experience and clarify the application's messaging. Additionally, the user fixed a space issue within the template for the approval dialog.
file-transferxmppxmpp-clientjavascriptwebrtc
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