Michi Gerber
Co-Founder & Senior Software Engineer at nxt Engineering GmbH
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichi Gerber is a Co-Founder and Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable enterprise and startup software from Zurich. After earning a Distinction MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford and a top-scoring BSc in Rapperswil, he moved from technology architect and senior engineering roles at Swiss Re and HRM Systems into founding nxt to deliver well-organized, maintainable solutions. He blends hands-on backend engineering with product-minded leadership, having contributed bug fixes and authentication improvements to the widely used Keycloak open-source IAM project. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving and a focus on robustness across the stack, especially around authentication and configuration edge cases. Outside work he’s an avid snowboarder and boulderer—traits that mirror his taste for calculated risk and technical precision.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Software Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Software Engineering, Distinction at University of OxfordBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 5.4, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 5.4 at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
German, English, French, German
Github Skills (8)
keycloak10
javas10
oid10
user-authentication10
debug10
authentication10
java10
saml10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
keycloak/keycloak
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 24 PRs, 9 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michi primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Keycloak project. They addressed issues related to cookie storage in Internet Explorer 11, resolved problems with reading configuration files containing spaces, and merged updates from the upstream master branch. Additionally, the user made changes related to authentication and email handling, including fixes for reset password functionality and handling of disabled users. These changes demonstrate an understanding of the project's core identity and access management functionalities.
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
gerbermichi/keycloak
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 129 pushes, 55 branches in 10 months
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