Sam Zurcher
Angestellt, Senior Software Engineer, Ergon Informatik AG
Zurich, Switzerland
Timeline
Professional experience for Sam Zurcher
3 years and 10 months, Sep 2010 - Jun 2014
Co-Founder / CTO
Horizobu AG
Together with Werner Hartmann, we started building Horizobu in 2008. Developing ideas for an alternative search engine. Technology stack: Java 6, Spring 3.0, Tomcat, nginx, Guava, JUnit, Apache Commons, Memcached, Javascript, JQuery, Google Closure Library, Google Closure Compiler, JsTestDriver, AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS SimpleDB, AWS Elastic MapReduce, scalr.net, Apache Hadoop.
Conducting over 20 pair programming interviews with potential external and internal candidates (2010-now). / Introducing change set analysis for selenium tests. Given a change set, we can calculate which selenium tests are potentially affected and run only those. Reduces execution time of selenium tests. Together with Michael Qvortrup.
Software Engineer in the Delivery Center Online Order (eOrders). eOrders allows customers, 3rd party and Swisscom agents to order Swisscom wireline products. eOrders is developed by a team of approximately eight (2008) to 16 (2012) people. Since mid of 2008, the eOrders team has transformed into a Scrum team.
8 months, Apr 2007 - Nov 2007
ICT Specialist
Helvetas
Advising and supporting lecturers and staff of the Samtse College of Education in the areas of computer infrastructure, computer network, computer literacy, and programming. Part of the STEP project. In collaboration with Swiss Civil Service.
4 months, Apr 2006 - Jul 2006
ICT Specialist
Helvetas
Advising and supporting lecturers and staff of the Samtse College of Education in the areas of computer infrastructure, computer network, computer literacy, and programming. Part of the STEP project. In collaboration with Swiss Civil Service.
5 months, Jun 2005 - Oct 2005
Intern
Google
Development in Java. Supervised by Jay Han / Heike Schmitz.
Educational background for Sam Zurcher
10 months, Aug 2004 - May 2005
Exchange Studies
UNC Chapel Hill
Studies in computer science, professional writing, English pronunciation, and political science.
2003 - 2006
Computer science didactics.
ETH Zurich
Semester thesis: Discovery learning and applet for graph algorithms. http://tinyurl.com/wbfec
5 years and 6 months, Oct 2001 - Mar 2007
Computer Science
ETH Zurich
Focus in the area of theoretical computer science: cryptography, security, randomized algorithms, satisfiability, and formal methods. Semester thesis: Forbidden Patterns in 0-1 Matrices. (http://tinyurl.com/yfrc3q) Master thesis: Anisotropic Smallest Enclosing Balls. (http://tinyurl.com/2be2u
Languages
English
Fluent
German
First language
Spanish
Basic
French
Intermediate
Italian
Basic