Tobias Boner is a Cloud Native Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems, currently driving platform work at Swisscom. He holds a summa cum laude MSc in Computer Science from the University of Zurich and blends strong academic rigor with practical delivery across startups and enterprise environments. Tobias has built frontend-heavy React/React Native products, backend services and blockchain integrations, and has acted as Technical PO designing architectures and customer-facing requirements for Web3 ventures. An active contributor to open-source testing efforts, he has improved robustness in popular projects like Remotion by adding comprehensive edge-case test coverage. Based in Aarau, Switzerland, he also brings cross-disciplinary interests—having worked as a fitting model and trained as a Swiss Tennis coach—which inform his collaborative and user-focused approach to product development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik (Software Systems), Summa cum laude, Master of Science - MS, Informatik (Software Systems), Summa cum laude at Universität Zürich | University of Zurich
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik (Information Systems), Magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik (Information Systems), Magna cum laude at Universität Zürich | University of Zurich
Grundausbildung, Grundausbildung at Swiss Tennis J+S Coach
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the project by adding and improving test cases. Their work focused on validating the behavior of the Remotion library, particularly around composition validation, image format, pixel format, sequence validation, and audio functionalities. They added tests to cover edge cases, boundary conditions, and invalid inputs, aiming to enhance the robustness and reliability of the video creation library. The changes involve modifying existing test files and adding new ones with test scenarios.
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 19 days
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