Gabriel Schenker

I help engineering organisations turn business intent into software that ships continuously.

A leader of leaders in platform engineering and software architecture. I mentor, hire and develop the people who build the systems. PhD, ETH Zurich. Appenzell, Switzerland.

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Six-month to weekly automated releases
Cloud costs cut by more than two-thirds
Led ~20 people across continents
Mentored numerous people
Author of seven technical books
PhD, ETH Zurich

What I work on

Continuous deployment

Makes deployment a non-event. For a Swiss logistics company and a US consumer lender, led the move from manual deployment to continuous deployment with no human in the loop.

Platform as a product

Built a self-service developer platform for up to five product engineering teams plus QA and delivery, measured with DORA-aligned metrics. Cut total cloud costs by more than two-thirds by improving every stage of the CI/CD pipeline and its quality gates.

Business and engineering alignment

Introduced EventModeling so business and engineering design from one shared blueprint. Rebuilt a pharma research platform on event sourcing with an onshore team and an offshore team in Bangalore, on time and on budget.

People leadership

Leads through managers and stays close to the teams. Co-developed an engineering career ladder covering more than 50 people across product engineering, QA, platform and security. Closely involved in hiring, and has mentored numerous people.

Featured case

Case study

From six-month releases toward continuous deployment on a Life & Health policy platform

At a digital Life & Health insurer

ProblemSix-month releases on a large policy platform
ApproachFeature toggles, shift-left quality, full automation
ResultFully automated weekly releases as a step toward continuous deployment, with shorter lead times and fewer incidents and rollbacks

Advisory & speaking

Alongside my main role, I occasionally take on selected advisory conversations and talks on platform engineering, architecture and EventModeling. More on Contact