Nicolas Christener
CEO, Member Of The Board Of Directors at Adfinis
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNicolas Christener is a Swiss technology executive and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience leading engineering teams and scaling services, currently serving as CEO and board member at Adfinis and CEO of WineBarrel GmbH. He rose through hands-on roles from developer and system engineer to CTO and CEO, combining deep technical roots with strategic leadership across open source-focused organisations. A long-time advocate for community-driven software, he has served on multiple boards including CH Open and brings a practical, product-oriented approach to open source adoption in enterprise contexts. Based in Bern, he blends operational rigor with a founder’s mindset, often stepping into both technical and governance roles to drive growth and sustainability. Unusually, his career reflects continuous progression within a single company (Adfinis) while also launching and steering separate ventures and supervisory roles.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BMS II, BMS II at Gewerblich Industrielle Berufsschule ThunHTA LuzernEFZ Informatik, EFZ Informatik at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule Bern
English, German
Github Skills (77)
joomla-extensions10
cms10
vote10
cpp10
javascript10
vdm10
joomla-component10
android10
ios10
libreoffice10
open-source10
joomla10
php10
content-management10
documents10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
adfinis-sygroup/ose-dotnet-mssql-example
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 months
adfinis-sygroup/groupmail
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 months
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