Tobias Ebnöther
VP Engineering & Technology at Digitalparking AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolTobias Ebnöther is a seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience in frontend and cloud systems, now serving as VP Engineering & Technology in Zurich. He combines deep hands-on expertise in TypeScript and React with a history of shaping frontend architecture and mentoring teams across startups and enterprises. Tobias has a strong quality-first mindset demonstrated by meaningful test and automation contributions to well-known open-source projects like sinon.js and ParaTest. His background spans building robust, asynchronous backends and real-time client integrations, plus practical product-facing work from search visualization to mobile clients. Colleagues value his curiosity and continuous learning—he often bridges implementation and operational concerns to deliver reliable, maintainable systems. Unusually for a VP, he still contributes directly to test suites and architectural foundations, keeping him close to the code.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Berufsmittelschule ZürichTBZ Technische Berufsschule Zürich
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
javascript10
test-driven-design10
sinon10
stub10
stubs10
testing10
functional-testing10
phpunit10
php10
unit-test10
test-automation10
error-handling9
html6
css6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
paratestphp/paratest
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
:computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Tobias focused on improving the testing coverage and reliability of the ParaTest project. Their work involved adding new tests to validate the functionality, especially regarding error handling and fatal errors within PHPUnit runs. They also refactored existing tests, moving them to more appropriate directories, and improved test output for better debugging. The user's contributions included changes to multiple test files and fixture files, demonstrating a focused effort on enhancing the testing framework.
paralleltestingphpphpunitparallel-testing
sinonjs/sinon
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Tobias implemented and refined test cases for the `sinonjs/sinon` repository, focusing on the `stub` module. They added new tests for `callsArgOn`, `callsArgOnWith`, `yieldsOn`, and `yieldsToOn` functionalities, enhancing the test suite coverage. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the stubbing and mocking features within Sinon.js, along with the construction of robust and detailed unit tests. Further cleanup was done on the testing.
avastubxmlhttprequeststubsjest
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