dennisthiessenandClaude Opus 5
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Internal application, submitted 2026-09-15. Evidence Fit 78, hard gate FAIL (ArcGIS and FME required, never used), overridden by the user. Document Quality 89, no Tier 1 findings. Channel Moderate: hiring manager Marianne Temerowski was contacted first and encouraged the application - the first time a named contact was used before applying. 2-page English resume, no cover letter (internal). KB CORRECTIONS FOUND ON THE WAY - BS-8: geospatial work at Bosch (Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY; normalizing and transforming wafer data across coordinate reference systems; performance tuning) was missing from claims.json. The first assessment also wrongly assumed wafer data carries no CRS; the user corrected it. ArcGIS, FME, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer and GDAL are registered as forbidden. - Swisscom was recorded as one undifferentiated current role. It is two units: ART B2B (past - Teradata DWH component ownership, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Kafka) and ART DPT, Team Offering (current - AWS data products with ODP-Flow, PySpark/Python, Glue, Iceberg, Athena, Airflow). The first build wrote the B2B ownership in present tense. Kafka and Kubernetes are now production-historical. Official internal title recorded (Engineer IV, III before Apr 2025); the unit switch date deliberately not. - Confirmed: SW-1 migration in Python Glue jobs with ODP-Flow; SW-3 multi-environment deployments; SW-7 relational data models. SW-3 narrowed: he worked with automated GitLab CI/CD and did not build it. - Skills added: Apache Iceberg, relational data modelling, ODP-Flow, Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY, coordinate system transformation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Current applications
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Use current outcome and next action below. Imported legacy notes are historical, not current instructions.
| Application | Current outcome | Interview reached | Next action |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA - Senior DevOps Engineer, Zürich (req JR2024256) | applied | not recorded | Await response. Raise the working model at first contact - it went in unresolved and a 5-day-onsite seat would be a late no. Note: claims.json has no shell-scripting entry, so Bash is omitted from Skills although the JD names it and ten years of Debian admin plus Ansible work plainly involve it - same shape as the Ansible/Linux gaps found 2026-08-27. Confirm with the user and record it. Groovy stays out regardless. |
| RUAG C5I - AI Engineer C5I, Thun (application ID 18027) | applied | not recorded | Await response. Optional but still worthwhile: call Marco Heinzen about technical scope and level, and Frank Haugwitz about compensation and PSP/project eligibility. NEW CONTACT 2026-09-07 — Lars Kauz, Head of ICT Infrastructure C5I, +41 79 293 93 82, lars.kauz@ruag.ch, published on the System Engineer C5I posting. Channel is the rationed variable since the 09-05 cohort change, so a published, reachable name matters — but he heads ICT Infrastructure, the function whose req was ruled out for VMware/VDI/Windows content, and that is NOT demonstrably the Kubernetes platform group Senior DevOps C5I sits in. He is a warm entry into C5I, not a verified channel for rank 1; Haugwitz stays the recorded gate. Do not react to a single outcome with positioning changes (application_strategy.md §38/§74). |
| Schweizer Armee - Kommando Cyber (Kdo Cy), DevOps Engineer III (Data Platform), Zimmerwald (Ref JRQ$540-19848) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Citadel Securities — Platform Engineer, Research Platform Engineering, Zürich (also NY/Miami) | applied | not recorded | Await response (submitted 2026-08-26). No document work pending. Two questions travel with this application and must both be asked at first contact, before any interview effort: (1) is the application even against the Zürich seat? — the apply form offered no Zürich, so it may sit against a US req, which is a hard NO on relocation; (2) hybrid or 5-day onsite? — unresolved at submission, and 5-day onsite is a likely NO-GO on the Bern constraint. Same shape as the NVIDIA working-model issue: it went out unresolved, so it is now a live screening topic rather than a pre-cleared one. Also unasked: the Zürich compensation figure — the posting's $175–350k is a US/NY pay-transparency disclosure. |
| SBB - Data Engineer (m/w/d), Asset Management Infrastrukturanlagen, Bern (Job ID 103755) | withdrawn_by_candidate | yes | Closed. For future SBB roles assess Niveau L/Kader; do not generalize SBB bands to other employers. |
| AWS (AWS EMEA SARL, Switzerland Branch) — Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Zürich (job 10504263) | not_proceeding | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Google — Forward Deployed Engineer III, Google Cloud GTM (French, German), Zürich (req 78350205438567110) | not_proceeding | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| SDU Center for Energy Informatics, Odense DK — PhD, Theme 2 Predictive Maintenance & Asset Management of Smart Energy Networks (job 4159) | not_proceeding | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Aker BP ASA — Data Product Architect, AI-ready Data Products (FINN 469067315) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Google - Software Engineer III, Business Home, Zurich (req 93922217108087494) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Microsoft — Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, SWE (German Speaking), Zürich (req 200043897) | applied | not recorded | Done — await response |
| BIS Basel — Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, AI (jr100429, 3-yr term) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Abgeschlossen: Absage erhalten; keine weitere Aktion offen. |
| NATO JWC Stavanger — Staff Officer, AI Engineer (2030 Digitalisation, G15, 3-yr PLN) | applied | not recorded | Await screening; no action until contact |
| Microsoft — Senior SWE, Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE), Zürich (req 200040836) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Kraken (Payward) — SRE, AI Agents (remote, CH-eligible) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Google — Senior Data Engineer (Merchant Data Science), Zürich/MV | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Snowflake — Sr SWE, Enterprise (Observe by Snowflake), Zürich | closed_no_response | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Isovalent (Cisco) Sr Data Engineer, Observability | role_closed | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Google Zürich Sr SWE Infrastructure (Data Pipeline) | not_proceeding | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Kraken AI Infrastructure | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Infineon Doctoral | withdrawn_by_candidate | yes | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Infineon AI Engineer | not_proceeding | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Apple Data Engineer (ISE, Zurich) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Google FDE GenAI (Zurich) | paused | not recorded | Likely abandon |
| Equinor — Manager / AI Architect, Agentic systems (Stavanger/Oslo/Rotvoll/Sandsli; req JR106747) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| QuantCo Cloud Engineer (Europe/Zürich) | rejected_no_interview | not recorded | Closed; no pending application action. Read recorded history before reopening. |
| Swisscom (Schweiz) AG — Data Engineer - Geo Platform, Bern/Worblaufen (internal, req R-0006447) | applied | not recorded | Await response. Interview prep (critique section 7): say plainly that ArcGIS and FME are unused; name the Bosch coordinate systems and how the transformations were done; geographic CRS (WGS84, LV95, datum shifts) is new ground. |
Current targeting notes
- SBB Niveau K/L is SBB-specific. The reported approximate CHF 145k K ceiling is not a salary anchor for other employers.
- Assess headroom and total package: working time, holidays, office days, commute and verified benefits. Never decline a Thun-area role on salary band alone.
- Childcare-cost coverage at the Swiss Army/Kdo Cy remains unverified; confirm before pricing it.
- Norway remains open selectively; the Swiss compensation threshold does not automatically apply there.
- An interview does not prove how an ATS or recruiter evaluated the application. No causal inference from a single conversion.