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Leonhard KUBOSCHEK
leonhard@kuboschek.me
8006 Zürich


Curriculum Vitae

Professional Engagements

Software Engineer in Payment Solutions, Zürcher Kantonalbank — since February 2024

  • Responsible for the gateway to CLSSettlement
  • Operation of the gateway to Swiss Interbank Clearing
  • Integration and operation of central sanctions screening components
  • Guiding software architecture for new and updated components
  • Aligning architectural decisions with enterprise architecture

Backend Engineer, Chimpy AG — June 2023 - January 2024

  • Operated and further developed the power bank rental platform chimpy.io for 100,000 monthly users
  • Enabled faster development cycles through the introduction of unified continuous integration and deployment

Software Engineer, legartis technology AG — July 2022 - April 2023

  • Automated contract review through a combination of machine learning, feature extraction, statistical methods and rule-based processing
  • Reduced build time by a factor of five through effective container caching and build parallelisation
  • Improved incident response by introducing automated tests and deployments

Senior Consultant, DXC Technology Switzerland GmbH — April 2021 - July 2022

  • Designed, implemented and further developed critical data integrations for over 9 million customers in the Swiss public transport sector
  • Advised public and private sector customers on the further development of existing software solutions and the introduction of additional standard software modules
  • Developed proof-of-concept software for several successful presales projects involving bids in the mid-seven-figure range

Consultant, Sopra Steria SE — May 2018 - April 2021

  • Further developed a payment processing system handling over 100 million accounts at more than 350 banks
  • Integrated in-house and third-party standard software modules into existing customer architectures and workflows

Core Founding Team Member, Things move China GmbH — October 2017 - May 2018

  • Redesigned and rebuilt all systems according to the principles of service-oriented architecture
  • Built a novel hybrid e-commerce platform

Early Career

Software Engineering Intern, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. — June 2016 - September 2016

Linux System Administrator, Medical Practice Dr. med. Westeroth — August 2014 - October 2017

Qualifications

Certified Professional for Software Architecture, Foundation Level, iSAQB — February 2026

Certified Neo4j Professional, Neo4j — November 2023

GraphQL Associate, Apollo Odyssey — October 2023

Certified SAFe Practitioner, Scaled Agile — September 2021

Graduate Program, Sopra Steria — May 2018 - April 2019

Education

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Software Architecture, HSLU — January 2025 - July 2025

  • Applied project paper: Scalable architecture for processing SIC payment messages

BSc in Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen (now Constructor University) — September 2014 - June 2017

  • Bachelor’s thesis: Clustering Domain Names by Content Delivery Networks
  • Specialisation in Computer Networks

International Baccalaureate Diploma — September 2011 - May 2013

Skills

Languages

  • German: Native
  • English: C2

Technologies

  • Python
  • SQL
  • TypeScript
  • Linux
  • Computer networks

Practices

  • Software architecture
  • Messaging-based integration
  • Requirements engineering
  • DevOps and CI/CD
  • Test-driven development
  • Agile development and Scrum

Soft Skills

  • Clear communication with technical and business stakeholders
  • Collaboration across teams and disciplines
  • Understanding customer needs and translating them into practical solutions
  • Structured, pragmatic problem-solving
  • Quick understanding of new domains and technologies

Awards

Winner — CopenHacks 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Third Place — jacobsHack! 2015, Bremen, Germany