What I'm looking for
I'm looking for roles where industrial systems, data platforms, or OT/security still require hands-on ownership — not leadership that stops at vendor decks.
Hire me when uptime, OT isolation, and pipeline trust matter more than another slide. ADDA on HLL2, Renata's MQTT backbone, and DuckDB/MCP tooling are the proof.
I want to walk the line, design the schema first, ship ingest and UI with a small team or alone, harden for OT reality, and stay accountable through the first production incidents.
Ideal roles
- Head of OT / IIoT / Industrial Data Platform
- Principal or Staff Engineer — Data & Platform Architecture
- Director of Engineering — Manufacturing Analytics
- OT/IT & Information Security Leader who still ships code
- Platform architect — DuckDB, agents, or lakehouse in production
Values
I look for organisations that share these principles
- Security that ships with the stack — not a parallel paper program
- Respect for OT boundaries and production uptime
- Schema and data quality treated as first-class engineering
- Open source and agent tooling with regulated-data boundaries
- Leaders who still understand what breaks at 2 a.m. on a line
Parameters
Flexible on details — ideally within these bounds
- Location: Switzerland-based (or Europe with strong Switzerland presence)
- Languages: English and German
- Seniority: Head / Director / Principal — still with exposure to architecture and delivery
- Discipline: OT / IIoT / industrial data platforms / manufacturing analytics / OT-IT security
- Industry: Manufacturing, battery, regulated industrial environments, or similar production constraints
- Working style: Hands-on ownership of systems that must keep running — schema, broker, UI, deploy
Why me?
Rare mix: Head of OT, IT & ISM at Renata (Swatch Group) plus daily builder of schemas, pipelines, and apps. See achievements, intro, and GitHub.
Get in Touch
If this fits, please get in touch.