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Curriculum vitae

Mateusz von Schiller

Full-stack engineer in Zürich. Thirteen years shipping software, six of them building and running platforms for Swiss healthcare.

Experience

Oct 2020 – Sep 2025
Zürich, CH

Helsana Insurance Company Ltd

Full Stack Engineer · One of Switzerland's largest health insurers

  • Reduced production incidents by ~75% in the broker support and management platform by redesigning its business-process workflows into reusable, composable subprocesses with tightened input-data contracts.
  • Automated the team's release process by migrating backend services' CI/CD pipelines from on-prem to cloud, replacing manual deployment steps with standardised builds and freeing engineers from release toil.
  • Eliminated uncontrolled production database changes by prototyping a version-controlled, declarative schema-migration workflow (Liquibase) — replacing ad-hoc, hand-run SQL with reviewable, repeatable, rollback-able migrations.
  • Improved team-wide code quality and engineering practices — design patterns, testability, and consistent style — by mentoring junior developers and reinforcing standards through code reviews and pair sessions.
Jul 2019 – Sep 2020
Zürich, CH

helmedica AG

Web Developer · Medical practice-management software

  • Automated incoming lab-result entry by building a matching component that auto-attached exact matches directly to patients and routed ambiguous ones to a staff review queue, replacing what was previously fully manual data entry.

Projects

2025 – 2026

Drug Review Condition AI Classifier (DistilBERT)

AI Engineering · 4-person team

  • Built a reproducible ML pipeline (cleaning → masking → baseline → fine-tuning → evaluation → auto-rendered PDF report) classifying free-text drug reviews into 10 conditions on a 98K class-stratified, drug-name-masked dataset derived from 215K raw reviews.
  • Established a TF-IDF and logistic regression baseline on masked data (0.879 accuracy, 0.836 macro-F1, 0.981 top-3 accuracy across 10 classes) as the floor the Transformer must clear; quantified drug-name label leakage via masking ablation (+2.0 / +2.7 points accuracy and macro-F1 from un-masking).
  • Fine-tuned DistilBERT with class-weighted cross-entropy and early stopping on macro-F1 (handling 8.6:1 class imbalance) to reach 0.917 accuracy and 0.880 macro-F1 on the masked test set — a +3.8 / +4.4 point improvement over the linear baseline.
2015 – 2017

Sunrise TV

Netstream

  • Won Netstream's internal hackathon: pitched and built a live-match sports-highlights replay feature for Sunrise TV, the consumer IPTV set-top box, built with one teammate.

Graph Adjacency-Matrix Generalisation

University Algorithms & Data Structures

  • Earned the course's top grade (5/5) and an exam exemption granted to only 3 of ~300 students by devising an original generalisation of the graph adjacency-matrix representation.
2019

From Nand to Tetris

Building a Modern Computer From First Principles

  • Built the Hack hardware platform in HDL: from logic gates and ALU to CPU, memory hierarchy, and full computer chip.
  • Implemented the toolchain in Python: a two-pass assembler with symbol resolution, and a VM translator supporting stack arithmetic, branching, functions, and returns.
  • Wrote Tetris in Jack on top of the platform: seven tetromino shapes encoded as bitmaps, rotation, collision detection, and line clearing.
2020

Contra Corona

CodeVsCOVID19 Hackathon

  • Built a multiplayer team game to raise awareness of the importance of social distancing during the pandemic, with mechanics that rewarded players for staying home.

Education

Oct 2025 – Expected 2027
Warsaw, PL

Vistula University

Computer Science · AI Engineering

  • Part-time, semester 4 of 7 · GPA 4.16 / 5.00.

Skills

Languages
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
Frameworks
  • Spring Boot
  • Angular
ML / Data Science
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • scikit-learn
  • pandas
  • NumPy
Technologies
  • Azure DevOps CI/CD
  • Camunda BPM
  • Liquibase
  • Oracle Database
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • Docker
  • Git