Stefan Koch
Employee, CTO / Principal Software Engineer, Ridebooker
Whistler, Canada
Timeline
Professional experience for Stefan Koch
Current , since May 2017
CTO / Principal Software Engineer
Ridebooker
+= Principal software engineer for a transportation booking platform, leading a team of 7 developers += Develop strategic business plans to increase market share in a growing and competitive market += Lead strategic decision making for business development and chairing board meetings += Oversee the hiring, training and development for the software development team += Hands-on development work of web and mobile apps, databases, web services, and Linux servers
Current , since Jan 2016
Founder
Spokesman.online
+= Developed a responsive web application to aggregate and present race event results that has been adopted by Whistler Blackcomb Resort as their primary application for all race events += Architecture and implementation of RESTful Web API and a SPA's (web application and CMS) += Hosted via Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Kubernetes / Docker via Azure DevOps += Developed several prototypes of mobile apps with React Native, and Flutter
2 months, Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Instructor
Lighthouse Labs
+= Instructor for a 6-week course covering web development basics += Trained students in HTTP protocol, developer tools, current web technologies and object-orientated programming basics with Ruby, SQL and relational databases
2 years and 11 months, Jun 2014 - Apr 2017
Senior Software Engineer
Ridebooker
+= Implemented features for booking platforms to enhance the SEO performance and conversion rate += Developed a new B2B SPA booking portal together with the corresponding RESTful Web API += Designed and maintained an innovative transportation management web application using unsupervised machine learning to automatically group passengers into suitable vehicles += Mobile application development on the iOS platform
4 years, Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
Senior Software Engineer
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
+= Redeveloped the full Swisscom and Bluewin websites including all backend services on a new stack with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) formerly known as CQ and Java to consolidate the enterprise-level IT landscape of Swisscom += Developed a news and weather app for Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Platform with Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework (MPF) += Trained the nearshore team in Belgrade, Serbia on Swisscom IT systems, standards and practices
4 years and 5 months, May 2005 - Sep 2009
Software Engineer
CreateCtrl AG
+= Designed and implemented several database driven Windows desktop and web applications including content management systems in WPF, ASP.NET, C# and C++ += Tested and implemented payment gateway components for credit cards (datatrans payment APIs) += Developed and maintained a real-time seating ticketing web application for the cinetixx platform to increase customer capacity
Educational background for Stefan Koch
2000 - 2003
Computer Science
Oskar-von-Miller School
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent