Summary
Michael Rätzel is a software engineer with 10 years of experience spanning industrial automation, medical software, machine vision, game design and B2C SaaS. He currently develops production-grade systems at Swiss Life while running BotLab, a consumer-facing SaaS that teaches gamers to program, and is the creator of Pine-VM, reflecting his focus on sustainable developer tooling. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, he designs GUIs and CLIs, operates deployments and migrations, and builds CI/CD insights and automated tests for regulated products. He also mentors and onboards developers and translates user and client conversations into product roadmaps, bridging technical execution with customer-driven strategy. Based in Chur, Switzerland, he pairs deep hands-on engineering with a knack for making developer workflows enjoyable and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Italian