Projects

Things I built

From a self-built cluster in a spare room to GPU data centres, a federal identity and a ten-year public AI programme — a selection across thirty years.

The wbtl.app tool collection — 100% local, no tracking, free forever
Now · Maker

wbtl.app

Free browser tools — local, no tracking. Built end to end by spec-driven agentic AI development.

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The rokka.io homepage — digital image processing done right
2016 — 2024 · Founder & CTO

rokka.io

Image storage and rendering done right. 200M images, 1B hits a day, 100% uptime over eight years.

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egovpartner programme
2026 — 2036 · Programme owner

egovpartner AI platform

One secure AI platform for the 116 municipalities of the canton of Zürich — won by public tender, owned end to end.

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The Swiss trust infrastructure discussion paper, published on GitHub for public consultation
2024 · Architect

Swiss e-ID

Base infrastructure and cryptography concepts for the Swiss electronic identity — co-authored white paper, released for public consultation.

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M-API architecture: front-ends calling Symfony REST APIs behind Varnish, an indexer feeding an Elasticsearch cluster from the Migros enterprise systems
2013 — 2024 · Architect & tech lead

Migros product-data API

A core enterprise service: ETL over millions of products from 30+ heterogeneous sources, served as one REST API to the whole organization.

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Liip's announcement of the salary system that won the Swiss HR Award 2022
2022 · Originator of the core ideas

Award-winning salary system

A salary system for a self-organizing company of ~250 people. Won the Swiss HR Award 2022; salary satisfaction rose from 82% to 97%.

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The base32 repository on GitHub — Base32 encoder/decoder for PHP according to RFC 4648
Ongoing · Author & maintainer

base32

The only fully RFC 4648-compliant Base32 implementation for PHP — 34 million downloads and counting.

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The Barcaddy project page — a free barcode and QR code app for loyalty cards and coupons
2026 · Author

Barcaddy

A free, offline barcode and loyalty-card wallet for Android. No account, no cloud, no ads — and the small details done right.

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The ShareReactor front page in October 2003 — 162,231 registered users — captured by the Internet Archive
2001 — 2004 · Founder

ShareReactor

P2P platform serving 2.5 million visitors a day on a self-built 25-server farm with 150 volunteers.

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More open source Dashboard Rotator for digital signage, Barcaddy for Android, and the rest On GitHub

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