Michael Räss
COO, Partner at Payrexx – Digital Payments
Thun, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Räss is a Swiss technology leader with 11 years of hands-on web development experience who has progressed from apprentice developer to COO and partner at Payrexx, shaping its payments platform and engineering organization. He combines deep technical roots—Bachelor in Computer Science and early years as a software developer—with product-minded leadership as CTO and now COO, focusing on scaling teams and systems for digital payments. A fan of new technologies, he retains a developer’s pragmatism and often bridges strategy with implementation, ensuring engineering decisions align with business needs. Based in Thun, Bern, he brings entrepreneurial grit from long-term involvement in a single company’s evolution, offering institutional knowledge of payment product lifecycles that isn’t obvious from titles alone.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Informatiker EFZ, Informatiker EFZ at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule BernBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Berner Fachhochschule BFH
Github Skills (8)
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
php10
prestashop-module9
prestashop7
shopware7
payment-methods6
magento3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
payrexx/shopware-payrexx-gateway
Feb 2018 - Jan 2024
A Shopware plugin to accept payments with Payrexx
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years
shopware
michaelraess/ch.bfh.bti7081.s2015.green
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:47 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
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