Summary
Philippe Hässig is a Senior Ruby on Rails developer and seasoned IT leader with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native applications and infrastructure from Switzerland. He blends hands-on engineering in Ruby, Go, Docker, Kubernetes and GitLab CI/CD with product and team leadership, having managed software portfolios of ~25 applications and datacenter operations. Comfortable switching between roles—software engineer, product owner, cloud engineer and director—he excels at turning operational constraints into pragmatic, user-focused solutions. His background in business informatics and IT management gives him a rare ability to align technical trade-offs with business outcomes, and his "Ruby Wizard" GitHub persona signals a deep, practical fluency in the Rails ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Advanced Studies, IT-Management, Certificate of Advanced Studies, IT-Management at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Informatics, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Informatics at ZHAW School of Management and Law
English, German, French, Swedish