Marcel Waldvogel
Enterprise Security Architect at DNIP.ch
Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarcel Waldvogel is a Swiss-based Enterprise Security Architect with over a decade of experience designing secure, privacy-conscious software for enterprise and critical infrastructure. He currently leads security architecture at Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund and is a co-founder of Trifence, reflecting a rare blend of corporate security leadership and entrepreneurial drive. His career combines strong academic foundations—PhD from ETH Zürich and a long tenure as professor and IT leader at the University of Konstanz—with practical industry and government-facing security work. An active open-source contributor, he has improved multilingual UX in the real-time encrypted chat project jsxc and advanced infrastructure automation in the https-portal project, showcasing both UX and DevOps impact. He emphasizes simplicity, usability, and efficiency in securing applications even in adverse environments, balancing mobility, compatibility, and industrial-scale infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Doktor (Ph.D.) at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMatura, Matura at Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland, Filialabteilung GlattalWashington University in St. LouisPhD, PhD at ETH Zürich
English, German, French
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Github Skills (29)
cron10
xmpp10
dockerce10
javascript10
docker10
configuration-management10
internationalization10
dockers10
automation10
xmp10
localization10
javascripts10
automations10
nginx10
devops10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
SteveLTN/https-portal
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
A fully automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let's Encrypt and Docker.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Marcel focused on improving the infrastructure and automation of the `https-portal` project. Their commits include implementing and refining the certificate renewal process using cron jobs, enhancing the configuration management system, and making the Nginx configuration more modular. They also introduced the ability for on-the-fly reconfiguration and dynamic domain support, adding flexibility to the deployment.
nginxletsencryptssllets-encryptssl-certificates
jsxc/jsxc
May 2014 - Feb 2018
:speech_balloon: Real-time xmpp chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily focused on improving the language consistency and user-friendliness of the application by updating language files. They made significant modifications to the `jsxc.lib.js` file, including adding, modifying, and translating various UI strings across multiple languages (English and German). These changes aimed to improve the user experience and clarify the application's messaging. Additionally, the user fixed a space issue within the template for the approval dialog.
balloonxmppwebrtcxmpp-clientvideo
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