Severin Schoepke
Principal Software Engineer at On AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSeverin Schoepke is a Principal Software Engineer based in Zurich with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications, currently leading architecture and delivery for a major e-commerce platform. He combines deep backend expertise—including PostgreSQL-backed job scheduling improvements contributed to the open QueueClassic project—with pragmatic AWS deployment and infrastructure management. Former CTO of two startups, he brings proven leadership growing small engineering teams and shipping production-grade systems under resource constraints. Trained with an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bern, Severin pairs test-driven development discipline with a penchant for solving time-based and concurrency challenges that quietly improve system reliability.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of BernMatura, Latin and old languages, Matura, Latin and old languages at Kantonsschule Solothurn
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (24)
postgresql10
queuing10
ruby10
sql10
ruby-on-rails10
queue10
google-analytics9
activex9
exceptions9
serialization9
activeperl9
cookie9
activejdbc9
activeobjects9
activesupport9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
QueueClassic/queue_classic
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Simple, efficient worker queue for Ruby & PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Severin contributed to the scheduling functionality within the `queue_classic` project, a Ruby and PostgreSQL based worker queue. Their work focused on implementing future job scheduling by introducing new columns, modifying existing enqueue methods, and adjusting the locking mechanism. The user also implemented changes to the underlying SQL queries. These changes improved the queue's ability to handle time-based job execution.
worker-queuerailsrubyworkerqueuing
shortcutmedia/shortcut-ios
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 89 commits, 10 pushes in 6 months
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