Benjamin Habegger

Benjamin Habegger is a senior hands-on data software engineer, designer, developer, and architect with over 20 years of experience in computer science and software development. He currently works at SIX in Biel, where he leads the development of a platform that includes a GraphQL API powering the SIX Flex financial information delivery platform. This platform provides clients with access to a comprehensive range of data points collected from markets around the world for over 40 years.

Benjamin’s core competencies include distributed computing, APIs, GraphQL, Docker, web applications, software platforms, search, symbolic machine learning, logic, Elasticsearch, Apache Camel, Kafka, and ActiveMQ. He mainly programs in Java, but also has knowledge of many other programming languages such as Javascript, Kotlin, Perl, C, C++, Ocaml, Prolog. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Nantes, specializing in information extraction.

Previously, Benjamin was also the co-founder and CEO of Boot-Start, a company that provided technical services to help startups quickly launch their products. In his spare time, Benjamin stays up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the software industry and is an active member of various online communities and forums. He also likes to fiddle around with Arduino.