Yannick Koechlin
Co-Founder at DeepTech Capital AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYannick Koechlin is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building high-performance, data-driven systems and teams across advertising, media streaming, and analytics. As Co-Founder of C WIRE he combines programmatic AI and contextual content analysis to modernize privacy-first advertising, while also advising as a partner at DeepTech Capital. He brings hands-on expertise in real-time stream processing, data pipelines, and low-latency systems—work that includes contributions to notable open-source servers like H2O and the vibe.d ecosystem. Yannick blends full-stack backend craftsmanship (Go, D, Scala, Java, Redis, Kafka) with product focus, ensuring engineering efforts stay tied to customer outcomes. He has a track record of shipping production ML services, SDKs and bespoke streaming platforms, and often moves between coding, architecture and team-building roles. Based in Zurich with a BSc in Informatics, he’s equally comfortable debugging SSL session logging as he is shaping business strategy for scale.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Informatics (with concentration in information system), Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Informatics (with concentration in information system) at University of Zurich
Github Skills (13)
c1710
http10
logging10
ssl10
c1110
dword10
redis10
networking10
dt10
web-content9
concurrency9
base64-encoding9
webpages9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
h2o/h2o
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
H2O - the optimized HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 28 PRs, 128 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the H2O HTTP server. Their contributions include fixing parsing issues related to quality attributes, adding logging for SSL session IDs and environment variables, and correctly defining base64 encode capacity. These changes reflect a focus on improving the server's functionality, debugging existing features, and extending its logging capabilities.
h2ohttp-clientfiddlerhttp2optimized
vibe-d/vibe.d
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Official vibe.d development
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 11 PRs, 34 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yannick contributed to the `vibe.d` project by modifying HTTP server functionality and adding support for Redis integration. Key contributions include enhancing cookie parsing, refactoring code related to cookie handling, and integrating HyperLogLog functionality (PFADD, PFCOUNT, PFMERGE) for Redis. The user also added functionality for the `SRANDMEMBER` Redis command with a count parameter.
concurrencyvibenetworkingdlangasync
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