Alexandre Joly
Location
Zurich 🇨🇭
Languages
English · German · French
Interests
Bouldering · Homelab tinkering · Building side projects
Available for
Freelance technical leadership and development work
Get in touch

alexandre@j2y.dev

Alexandre Joly

Freelance tech lead and full-stack developer, based in Zurich. 20+ years of shipping software — from software engineering at Bühler AG, through co-founding a digital studio (KiloKilo GmbH), to freelance technical leadership for Swiss enterprise clients.

The projects I take on tend to be ones where the architecture matters — banking, government, infrastructure. In these sectors, "we'll fix it in the next sprint" tends to have actual consequences. I come in, understand the problem, lead the technical work, and make sure it ships.

Trilingual — English, German, French — which actually matters when your clients are spread across Romandy, Deutschschweiz, and everything in between.

Outside work: bouldering, tinkering with a Kubernetes homelab, and building side projects that solve mildly annoying problems with entirely disproportionate technology.

Work history

  1. 2023 – Present

    Freelance Tech Lead — Self-employed

    Independent technical leadership for Swiss enterprise. Banking, manufacturing, government — the sectors where bugs aren't just annoying.

  2. 2015 – 2023

    Co-Founder & Managing Director, Technical Lead — KiloKilo GmbH

    Co-founded a Zurich digital studio. Eight years of client work — Telekom Deutschland, Schweiz Tourismus, ewz, Alpiq Digital. Owned everything technical.

  3. 2012 – 2015

    iOS Developer — Y&R Group Switzerland AG

    Shipped iOS applications for Swiss and international brand clients. Introduced GitLab as the company-wide version control standard.

  4. 2005 – 2012

    Control System Engineer — Bühler AG

    Software engineering apprenticeship, then stayed on as a developer. Built control system software for flour mills and food processing plants in .NET. Making those systems work in software wasn't glamorous, but I learned what production-grade really means.

Full work history on LinkedIn .