MDMaurice Däppen.
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About me.

Maurice Däppen is a fullstack and DevOps engineer in Bern, Switzerland, who treats security as a design constraint, not an afterthought.

BasedBern, CH
Exp5+ yrs
StatusEmployed · open to interesting work
Maurice DäppenIMG / 0.8MP
Based
Bern, CH
Exp
5+ yrs
Langs
DE · EN · FR · ES
Status
Employed, open

I fell for code through video games. Modding Minecraft as a kid turned tinkering into a craft, and I never really stopped.

That became an apprenticeship in software engineering, shipping in a production team from my second year on. Somewhere along the way I found I love explaining this stuff as much as building it, so I qualified as a certified apprentice mentor and now help the next batch of apprentices and trial-day students find their feet. In February 2027 I start my Dipl. Informatiker HF, a Swiss professional bachelor in computer science, majoring in cyber security and computer networks.

What keeps me hooked is the problem solving. I lose all track of time untangling something hard, or re-explaining an idea five different ways until it finally clicks for someone. I like pointing that at security, because making systems harder to break feels like making the world a little bit better.

Away from the keyboard I always have a joke loaded and I am fully signed up to internet culture, making memes and keeping the mood light. I am convinced the best work happens when people are actually having fun doing it.

[ motto ]

Stay sweet and silly.

Reliability

Systems that fail loud, recover fast, and never surprise the on-call.

Adversarial

Every design gets the question: who is trying to make this break, and how?

Reproducible

If it only builds on your machine, it does not build. Hermetic or nothing.

Stack matrix
Backend
JavaQuarkusHibernate / PanacheMaven / GradleREST APIs
Frontend
ReactNext.jsAngularAstroThree.jsTailwind CSSVite
Testing
JUnitMockitots-mockitoJest
DevOps / Infra
DockerKubernetesHelmArgoCDGitHub ActionsGitLab CI
Data
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDB
Edge / Proxy
TraefikNginxCaddy
Security / Auth
KeycloakOAuth2 / OIDCTLS
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaSplunk
AI / Tooling
LLM-assisted devOpenAI APIAnthropic / Claude APIPrompt engineering
Languages
German
Native
English
Fluent
French
Basics
Spanish
Basics
Off the clock
Side projects

Always building something small after hours, just to see if I can.

Gaming

Co-op nights with friends, with a soft spot for old retro titles.

Gym

Lifting to clear my head and stay sharp.

Cooking

Chasing the perfect plate of really good food.

Art

Modern paintings and sketches, and I make my own.

Travel

New cities, new places, new perspectives.