Thomas Gerstendörfer
Software Architect at Digitec Galaxus AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolThomas Gerstendörfer is a seasoned software architect based in Zurich with 16 years of hands-on experience building and hardening full-stack systems from high-level architecture down to low-level debugging. Currently shaping platform and delivery at Digitec Galaxus, he has a track record of leading R&D and product engineering teams—most notably as CTO at NeuroPie where he delivered a distributed, real-time BI platform for airports and supported complex integrations at major international hubs. He combines strong Microsoft-stack and distributed-systems experience with a pragmatic focus on automation: build, deployment, installer tooling and testability are recurring themes across his career. Thomas is equally at home breaking systems to make them stronger, bringing test-driven improvements and operational insights into product development. His background includes mission-critical work in payments, identity/biometrics and secure communications, reflecting an ability to design for reliability in regulated environments. The result is a practical architect who still enjoys digging into code to chase heisenbugs and optimize delivery pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ingenieur Fachrichtung Informatik, Computer Science, Dipl. Ingenieur Fachrichtung Informatik, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Aargau
German, English, French
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Github Skills (29)
msbuild10
microsoft-sql9
visual-studio9
sql-server8
tsql8
sql7
mssql7
data-tools7
ssms7
microsoft-sql-server7
transform6
syntax-highlighting6
automation6
scopes6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tgerstendoerfer/tg-contactsheet.lrwebengine
Jun 2010 - Dec 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 3 years 6 months
tgerstendoerfer/tgerstendoerfer.github.io
Jul 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:7 pushes in 8 years 6 months
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