Stefan Schindler is a Full Stack Ingenieur with 11 years of experience specializing in systems and Rust-focused back-end engineering, currently shaping resilient systems at Swissphone Group. He designs for performance and safety, contributing foundational open-source libraries such as parse_int and enhancements to the widely used uuid-rs project, showing attention to both correctness and interoperability. A systems-level thinker with deep interest in networks, open protocols and decentralized architectures, he combines low-level rigor with practical cloud-native and SRE experience. Beyond code, Stefan is a community builder and co-organizer of RustFest and Rust Zürisee, translating ecosystem stewardship into better tooling and collaboration. Based in Zurich, he pairs academic grounding (MSc in Computer Science) with hands-on roles from ETH Zürich to startups and freelance cloud engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on implementing and refining UUID generation features within the `uuid-rs/uuid` repository. Their contributions involved adding support for different UUID versions (v3 and v5), fixing compilation issues related to feature combinations, and improving code security. Additionally, they added documentation and updated tests to reflect the new functionalities and ensure correct operation of the UUID generation library.
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 17 branches in 6 years 11 months
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Stefan Schindler - Full Stack Ingenieur at RustFest EU