Matthias Brun
Co-Founder And Lead Software Architect at Berner Fachhochschule BFH
Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMatthias Brun is a co-founder and Lead Software Architect based in Olten, Switzerland, with 10 years of experience building cloud-native and full‑stack systems. He pairs hands-on engineering — including notable open-source work on Rocket.Chat where he implemented channel archiving and related UI/backend enhancements — with strategic architecture and product leadership at dsi engineering. As a lecturer at Berner Fachhochschule he teaches AWS, GCP, cloud security, serverless and DevOps, turning academic concepts into practical, secure implementations. His early background in system and network administration and an MSc in Business Information Systems give him a pragmatic systems-thinking approach and a focus on operational reliability. Motivated by a belief that innovation means doing things differently, he blends entrepreneurship, teaching and code to deliver privacy-aware, user-centric communication and cloud solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CAS Technologie-Beschaffungen, CAS Technologie-Beschaffungen at Berner Fachhochschule BFHInformatik Schwerpunkt Systemtechnik eidg. Informatiker EFZ, 5.3, Informatik Schwerpunkt Systemtechnik eidg. Informatiker EFZ, 5.3 at GIBS SolothurnMaster of Sience (MSc), in Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik), 5.6, Master of Sience (MSc), in Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik), 5.6 at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
German, English
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
javascripts10
meteor10
coffeescript10
collaboration9
realtime9
html9
chat9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
webrtc7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on enhancing the Rocket.Chat platform's channel management features, incorporating archiving and unarchiving functionalities. They modified both the front-end (client-side) and back-end (server-side) code to implement new UI elements, update server-side methods and database models, and improve user experience by displaying relevant messages and errors. Their contributions included refactoring existing components and improving the overall user interface related to channel management.
meteordata-protectionchatjavascriptcollaboration
matthias-brun/verus
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Verified Rust for low-level systems code
Contributions:34 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
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