Software has the power to touch people's lives in transformative ways. It excites me deeply to contribute, lead and manage teams to create empowering products and experiences that make a difference.I hold a MS degree in CS from ETH Zurich and have been working in the Silicon Valley since 2005. I was part of the Virtualization revolution that started in that decade, worked with many different teams large and small, and have intimate experience with the many roles of software organizations, as contributor and manager.I approach software systems from a user's perspective, working from the desired experience backwards deep into the technology stack, with a particular love and appreciation for front-end engineering and web technologies. I obsess about details while keeping a project aligned with the big picture objectives.Communication, connecting people, is an important part of my life. In the early years as reporter and youth organizer, and these days as president of my alumni chapter or co-chair of the San Francisco–Zurich Sister City Committee. As an international working professional, I'm naturally drawn to learning about cultures and customs, discussing policies and trends, and observing and understanding the society I live in.Specialties: Mobile applications, Distributed software architectures, User Interfaces.