Dixero International SA

Dixero International SA

1 years 3 months

Accomplishments

  • Launched High-Volume Apps: Launched the TIMmusic mobile app (~50,000 MAU) and successfully rebuilt the second-generation Musicload.de platform to support over 4 million users.
  • Architected Zero-Downtime Infrastructure: Designed a resilient, high-availability stack leveraging MongoDB, Apache Solr, HAProxy, Jetty, and Varnish clustering that sustained zero downtime during your tenure.
  • Engineered High-Throughput Messaging: Built and productionized a high-volume push-notification infrastructure capable of serving millions of daily active users across iOS, Android, and Windows ecosystems.
  • Optimized Media Ingestion: Developed robust audio-transcoding and content-delivery pipelines, enabling mass ingestion of major-label assets (Universal, Sony, Warner) with near-instant playback latency and no perceptible quality loss.
  • Delivered Full-Stack Editorial Tools: Built a custom Python CMS and algorithmic merchandising ranking logic to streamline internal content curation and promotion workflows.

  • Lead Software Engineer, Mobile & Platform

    Oct 13 - Dec 141 years 3 months

    Lugano, Switzerland

    Responsibilities

    • Platform & Engineering Direction: Led technical strategy, engineering delivery, and team resource allocation for carrier-branded mobile streaming and e-commerce platforms.
    • Backend & API Governance: Owned the Java backend architecture, server-rendered web applications (SSR), and media content-delivery pipelines.
    • Stakeholder & Vendor Integration: Partnered with major telecom and banking clients alongside global music labels to negotiate and implement secure playback and catalog ingestion standards.

    Accomplishments

    • Launched High-Volume Apps: Launched the TIMmusic mobile app (~50,000 MAU) and successfully rebuilt the second-generation Musicload.de platform to support over 4 million users.
    • Architected Zero-Downtime Infrastructure: Designed a resilient, high-availability stack leveraging MongoDB, Apache Solr, HAProxy, Jetty, and Varnish clustering that sustained zero downtime during your tenure.
    • Engineered High-Throughput Messaging: Built and productionized a high-volume push-notification infrastructure capable of serving millions of daily active users across iOS, Android, and Windows ecosystems.
    • Optimized Media Ingestion: Developed robust audio-transcoding and content-delivery pipelines, enabling mass ingestion of major-label assets (Universal, Sony, Warner) with near-instant playback latency and no perceptible quality loss.
    • Delivered Full-Stack Editorial Tools: Built a custom Python CMS and algorithmic merchandising ranking logic to streamline internal content curation and promotion workflows.

    Stack

    • Java
    • Objective-C
    • JavaScript
    • Python
    • AWS
    • Mathematica
    • Spring
    • Closure
    • MySQL
    • MongoDB
    • Django
    • Bash
    • Nginx
    • Ubuntu Server