Swiss COVID Systems Revealed
16:30 – 17:15 Pavillon
The COVID-19 Virus has kept us in suspense of what is next for nearly two years until now. In addition, it keeps us wondering how we can ever overcome its grip over us. In his talk, System Architect Sebastian Matyas will lift the curtain on three COVID-19 related projects of the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT): the SwissCovid App, the national contact tracing database and the COVID-19 Certificate Apps. We will get to know the story of when and how FOITT and its partners created these products and why they chose certain technologies and architectures. Sebastian hopes that the talk will highlight how technology can help us out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sebastian Matyas
Sebastian is a System Architect at the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT) in the Platform Services Business Unit in the Cloud Services ART. Here he is mainly responsible for the evolution of the on-premises container and VM-based platforms of FOITT.
Prior to the position at FOITT, he worked as an ICT Architect at T-Systems International in Germany and at NEC Japan as a post-doc researcher at the research labs near Osaka. He started his career as a full-stack .NET developer and since then has slowly transitioned to an architect and platform specialist.
When he is not designing a new solution, he is battling through the newest game he can find.