Sam Zurcher

Angestellt, Senior Software Engineer, Ergon Informatik AG

Zurich, Switzerland

Skills

International experience (Switzerland
US
Bhutan)
Java
Struts
JavaScript
JQuery
Selenium
EC2
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
technical interviews
Scrum

Timeline

Professional experience for Sam Zurcher

  • Current 11 years and 3 months, since Sep 2013

    Senior Software Engineer

    Ergon Informatik AG
  • 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.

  • 2 years and 5 months, Apr 2011 - Aug 2013

    Senior Software Engineer

    Swisscom

    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.

  • 3 years and 3 months, Jan 2008 - Mar 2011

    Software Engineer

    Swisscom

    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

Interests

Java
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Scrum

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