Hi, I’m Will
I’m a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland, specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and AI/LLM applications.
By day, I build high-availability payment processing and trading systems for financial institutions. By night, I run a Kubernetes cluster in my apartment and write about it here.
What I Do
AI & LLM Applications
I design and build RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems that make large language models useful in production environments:
- Codebase Assistants — Natural language querying over microservice architectures with source attribution and intelligent code chunking
- Market Intelligence Systems — Correlating real-time economic data with market movements using vector databases and embeddings
- Educational Chatbots — Adaptive language learning tools with streaming responses and conversation practice
Tech: Python, FastAPI, Qdrant, Ollama, Llama 3.1, nomic-embed-text
Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Building and operating Kubernetes platforms for critical financial systems:
- Event Streaming — Confluent Kafka for real-time order routing and payment message processing
- Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Splunk for monitoring, alerting, and compliance
- Search & Analytics — Elasticsearch and Kibana for transaction search and operational dashboards
- GitOps — Automated deployment pipelines with ArgoCD and image update automation
Tech: Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, GitLab
Career Highlights
Julius Baer (2024–Present) — Senior Software Engineer building cloud infrastructure for trading systems and AI developer tooling
APODRO (2023–2024) — Lead Developer architecting an order management system on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, CDK)
Ringler Informatik (2023) — Transforming Java monoliths into Kotlin microservices with Spring Boot and Kubernetes
Hexagon Geosystems (2022–2023) — Kotlin RESTful microservices on AWS with SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB
Credit Suisse (2019–2022) — Java/Spring Cloud microservices for trading data enrichment with Kafka and Elasticsearch
UBS (2017–2019) — Full-stack development with Java 8, Spring Boot, React, and Redux
This Blog
Minoko Labs documents my home lab experiments — a Kubernetes cluster running on mini PCs in my apartment. I write about infrastructure automation, GitOps, observability, and whatever else I’m tinkering with.
The blog itself runs on this cluster: Hugo static site → GitLab CI → ArgoCD → Kubernetes.