Summary
Sandro Mathys is a Cloud Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and automating cloud and platform infrastructure across research, telecom and commercial environments. He has deep expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform and Cloud Foundry, and has delivered and operated PaaS and IaaS solutions for organizations like SWITCH, Swisscom and Cloudreach. Known for combining operational rigor (24/7 support, release engineering) with open-source advocacy, he has driven migrations to OpenStack, built scientific clouds at ETH Zurich, and fostered community engagement for projects like MidoNet. Based in Uster, Zurich, Sandro focuses on roles in German-speaking Switzerland or Japan and prefers permanent engineering positions over consultancy. Not a Windows sysadmin or generalist developer, he brings specialist cloud platform skills and a pragmatic automation-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communications Systems and Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communications Systems and Informatics at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at KAI Japanese Language School
German, English, Japanese