Marius Giger
Head Of Software at Akenza - IoT made simple
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMarius Giger is a Head of Software based in Zurich with nine years of experience building scalable, cloud-native backends for IoT and financial services. He leads engineering at Akenza, designing the infrastructure that powers large-scale IoT deployments while balancing hands-on development and delivery practices. His background spans blockchain-based financial systems, Kubernetes microservices in Go, HSM and core-banking integrations, and secure enterprise projects at Swisscom. An active contributor to open-source scientific tooling (fixing GOES data handling in the SunPy project), he brings a pragmatic focus on data quality and operational reliability. Marius pairs an MSc in Computer Science with a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNWGymnasiale Matur (d/e) Spanisch, Gymnasiale Matur (d/e) Spanisch at Gymnasium Thun SchadauBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer science at Fernfachhochschule Schweiz
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
sun10
astropy10
solar10
py10
python10
data-analysis9
pandas8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sunpy/sunpy
May 2022 - Jun 2022
SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Marius contributed to the `sunpy` project by addressing issues related to GOES data processing. They fixed a broken link, exposed quality flags, and adjusted an example script to filter GOES data based on these flags. Additionally, the user updated the changelog and package path. This work improved data handling and user experience.
physicspythonsolarsimulationpython-3
akenza-io/grafana-connector
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Akenza Core Grafana Connector
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 10 months
connectorgrafana
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