Matthias Wiesmann
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMatthias Wiesmann is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, e-commerce platforms, and policy/compliance tooling. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in distributed systems from EPFL and research fellowships at JAIST and CERN—with long-running industry leadership as Google Switzerland's Shopping policy and compliance tech lead. Known for tackling hard infrastructure problems, he brings expertise in semantic web, data quality and natural language generation to pragmatic production engineering. Now at Pinterest, Matthias blends systems-level thinking with product-focused delivery and a track record of improving fault tolerance and standards-driven integrations that few engineers maintain across both research and large-scale consumer services.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, distributed System, Master, Computer Science, distributed System at University of GenevaPhD, Computer Science, distributed System, PhD, Computer Science, distributed System at EPFLMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Geneva Graduate Institute
German, Japanese, English, French
Stackoverflow
11reputation
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Github Skills (67)
dotnet10
real-time-strategy10
engine10
cross-platform10
rdf10
csharp10
schema-org10
structured-data10
json-ld10
image-optimization9
game-engine9
openra9
linux9
opengl9
minification9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wiesmann/Markless
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
wiesmann/xkbgrowl
Aug 2014 - May 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 16 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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