Zurich, Switzerland

Senior Software Engineer& Technical Lead

I build and lead production software for healthcare and enterprise environments. I stay hands-on with React, TypeScript, Java, and data-heavy workflows, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.

  • Production Systems
  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • Maintainability

About

Reinhard Zach

I am a senior software engineer and technical lead with 10+ years of experience across healthcare software, enterprise systems, test automation, APIs, and web applications. My strongest work is hands-on engineering for production systems: maintainable architecture, performance, reliability, clear workflows, and practical delivery with React, TypeScript, Java, and Oracle.

My current healthcare product work also includes applied AI workflows with deterministic validation. Outside that role, I explore robotics-adjacent software through side projects such as cloud-to-edge control-plane concepts. The impact examples below show that range across production optimization, reliability improvements, AI prototypes, research and public side projects.

Impact

Selected outcomes from production systems, validated AI workflow prototypes, robotics-adjacent side projects, and earlier public work. Public references are linked where available; company work is summarized without proprietary details.

Technical range

Recurring healthcare data workflow reliability

Improved reliability for a recurring healthcare data-processing workflow through batching, caching, observability, and fault isolation, strengthening business-critical downstream processes.

  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Oracle
  • Batching
  • Caching

Validated AI billing workflow prototype

Prototyped an AI-assisted healthcare billing workflow with user control and deterministic validation as core constraints, exploring how domain context, structured validation, and human review fit into a practical product workflow.

  • AI
  • TypeScript
  • Workflow Design
  • Validation

Crowdsourced usability testing engine prototype

Built a 2nd-place company hackathon prototype for a usability-testing engine that sent microtasks to Amazon Mechanical Turk, exploring how crowd workflows could produce fast product feedback.

  • Hackathon
  • Usability Testing
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk
  • Prototype

Published Android game and Steam Greenlight project

Built and released an Android game that reached over 2,000 installs, and later developed a PC game that was accepted through Steam Greenlight community voting.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Blender
  • 3D Game Development

Experience

My background spans hands-on product engineering, production healthcare software, enterprise systems, test automation, integrations, and technical leadership. My current role brings that mix together through senior-level implementation, technical direction, and team delivery.

Current role

Team Lead & Tech Lead

Zurich - current

I lead a software engineering team building healthcare software where correctness, operability, and clear workflows have to hold up in production. The work combines team leadership with hands-on implementation, architecture guidance, performance and reliability work, and day-to-day developer support.

I work with React, TypeScript, Java, Oracle, and Docker while supporting CI/CD, release processes, monitoring, and Kubernetes/Argo CD deployment workflows. I also shape applied AI workflow prototypes where deterministic validation and user control are core constraints.

  • Lead planning and day-to-day delivery for a six-person engineering team, balancing product requirements, code review and implementation support.
  • Set technical direction for performance-sensitive, maintainable React, TypeScript, Java, and Oracle systems and support their delivery through Kubernetes/Argo CD deployment workflows.
  • Support production readiness through release processes, CI/CD, monitoring, and pragmatic debugging across frontend, backend, and data workflows.

Responsibilities and focus areas

  • Technical leadership: architecture guidance, code review, mentoring, stakeholder communication and practical delivery trade-offs
  • Developer support and practical implementation guidance
  • Hands-on product and platform engineering
  • Performance, reliability and maintainability of production systems
  • React, TypeScript, Java and Oracle development
  • Docker and Kubernetes/Argo CD deployment workflows
  • CI/CD and release process support
  • Applied AI workflow design with deterministic validation
  • Code quality, maintainability and technical standards
  • Agile delivery and stakeholder coordination
  • Translating complex requirements into practical technical solutions

Freelance Full-Stack Developer

Independent work, 2019-2023

Delivered customer portals and business applications across frontend, backend, APIs, deployment workflows, and stakeholder requirements.

  • Worked with React, Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#/.NET Core, ASP.NET, REST APIs and CI/CD.
  • Handled requirements analysis, implementation, UI/UX detail and pragmatic delivery decisions.

Software Engineer

Earlier engineering roles

Built software across test automation, enterprise systems, ERP integrations, building automation, and web applications, forming a broad engineering base beyond one technology stack.

  • Previous roles include Tricentis, Vienna University of Technology, More Dimensions and VBV Pension Fund.
  • Worked across test automation tooling, cultural institution software, building automation systems and enterprise integrations.

Education

Formal education in software engineering, computer science, and information technology.

Contact

For professional questions, collaboration or technical conversations, send me an email or reach out on LinkedIn. GitHub and X/Twitter are linked for public technical work and updates.