Summary
Matthias Osswald is a Swiss DevOps and cloud-focused engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable infrastructure for startups and enterprises. He co-founded megazord.studio and currently serves as Präsident of Fitundschlau.ch, blending technical leadership with community-facing organizational roles. His background spans security engineering, cloud and DevOps roles at cyllective, Migros Aare and bespinian, showing a pattern of moving systems into production with reliability and compliance in mind. Trained in informatics at ZHAW after an applied apprenticeship, he brings both practical apprenticeship roots and academic depth to tooling and automation. Matthias maintains an active developer presence via busykoala projects and GitHub, reflecting an interest in open-source tooling and product-minded engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex operational challenges into maintainable, automated workflows.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Informatiker EFZ, Applikationsentwickler, Informatiker EFZ, Applikationsentwickler at GIBB
Maschineningenieurwissenschaften, Maschineningenieurwissenschaften at ETH Zürich
Gymnasiale Maturiät, Biologie & Chemie, Gymnasiale Maturiät, Biologie & Chemie at Gymnasium Köniz-Lerbermatt