Patrick Mischler
Observability & Monitoring Engineer And Platform Architect
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPatrick Mischler is an Observability & Monitoring Engineer and Platform Architect based in Bern, Switzerland, with over two decades in IT and nine years of focused experience in observability. He currently shapes monitoring platforms at Die Schweizerische Post, bringing deep operational knowledge from a long tenure at Swisscom where he built and automated BMC TrueSight/PATROL and Icinga2 landscapes. Patrick blends systems engineering rigor from his FFHS computer science studies with hands-on automation and knowledge-module development to keep complex infrastructures reliable and observable. He has a practical background in application and OS-level monitoring, installation packaging, and operator-facing information portals that improve runbook efficiency. Known for pragmatic platform thinking, he pairs long-term institutional experience with a Swiss engineering mindset—detail-oriented, dependable, and oriented toward maintainable solutions. Outside work, his profile reflects steady, sustained contribution to the monitoring discipline rather than transient tooling trends.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
eidg. Fachausweis Informatik, Applikationsentwicklung, eidg. Fachausweis Informatik, Applikationsentwicklung at Wirtschaftsinformatikschule SchweizBachelor of Science SUPSI in Computer Science with Major in Systems Engineering, Informatics, Bachelor of Science SUPSI in Computer Science with Major in Systems Engineering, Informatics at Fernfachhochschule Schweiz (FFHS)Polymechaniker, Polymechaniker at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule Bern
English, English
Github Skills (112)
opentelemetry-collector10
opentelemetry10
monitoring10
graphite10
prometheus10
promql10
collector10
controlling9
database9
scalability9
victoriametrics9
grafana9
k8s9
thanos9
observability9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PatMis16/promalert2bmctsom
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:24 releases, 54 commits, 47 pushes in 2 months
PatMis16/alloy
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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