Patrick Frey is a Zurich-based software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in document processing and information retrieval, currently authoring and architecting at project-strus.net. His career spans senior engineering and application development roles across finance and search-focused firms, including Zürcher Kantonalbank and Eurospider IT, where he led projects bridging domain-specific search needs with robust production systems. He combines deep IR expertise with hands-on architecture and implementation skills, frequently tackling complex text-processing pipelines and retrieval challenges. A Master’s graduate from the University of Bern, he pairs academic grounding with long-term commitment to open-source search tooling and pragmatic system design.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Master at University of Bern
1997, Master in Computer Science, 1997, Master in Computer Science at university of bern
Contributions:61 releases, 665 commits, 22 PRs in 6 years 8 months
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