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
- 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
- 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