Patrick Stählin
Senior Software Engineer at Aiven
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Stählin is a senior software engineer and technical lead based in Zurich with over two decades of hands-on experience building cloud-native and on-premise systems, currently contributing at Aiven. He specializes in Python, C++, Linux, and cloud platforms (GCP and AWS), with deep expertise in API design, scalable search (Elasticsearch) and payment services. Patrick has a track record of turning legacy stacks into RESTful, maintainable architectures and introducing schema-driven, configurable systems that reduced maintenance and deployment effort. A pragmatic team player and mentor, he favors rapid iteration, owns mistakes, and has helped grow engineering teams and coordinate offshore development. Notably, he was an early engineer at Squirro and led greenfield and open-source embedded projects, showing comfort across startups and enterprise settings.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Information Technology, Engineer, Information Technology at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesApplication Developer, Information Technology, Application Developer, Information Technology at TBZ Technische Berufsschule Zürich
German
Github Skills (85)
postgresql10
pitr10
mysql-backup10
coredns10
gcp10
backup10
dns10
cloud-object-storage10
dns-record10
external-dns10
route5310
kubernetes10
aws-route5310
aiven10
ingress10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
packi/linux
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
packi/glaubs
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.