Portrait of David Gutknecht

Senior IT Engineer

IT & System Integration

Senior IT Engineer with extensive experience in system integration, interface development and IT infrastructure. Background in customer management, new-customer acquisition, team leadership and technical project management.

System IntegrationIT InfrastructureProject ManagementTechnical Consulting

Profile

Technology, projects and customers in one role

My professional background sits at the intersection of software, system integration, IT infrastructure and customer projects. Beyond hands-on technical delivery, my experience includes independent project ownership, consulting, new-customer acquisition and collaboration with technical teams.

After many years as CTO / Head of IT & Integration, I moved into a Technical Account Manager role in 2026 and now support customer and integration projects from requirements analysis through go-live.

Experience

Professional background

2008–2014openmedical AG · Reinach, Switzerland

Software Developer & IT Project Manager

  • Independent development and delivery of software projects from requirements analysis through go-live
  • Technical support and maintenance of deployed systems and applications
  • Assumption of responsibility for internal IT infrastructure, including servers, network and security
2006–2008openmedical AG · Basel, Switzerland

Technical Support (DE/FR)

  • Technical customer support in German and French, including analysis and resolution of support requests and user training
  • Contribution to the optimisation of internal tools and processes
2005–2006PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN / Altaïr Technologies · Montbéliard, France

Application Engineer

Industrialisation and automation of Unix systems

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2004–2005

IT Support Engineer (Unix/Linux)

ALCATEL ICT / Altaïr Technologies · Strasbourg, France

February 2003 – July 2003

Research Intern

Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard · Belfort, France

August 2001 – February 2002

Software Developer

Synologic AG · Binningen, Switzerland

March 2000 – June 2000

Network Administrator

National Versicherung · Basel, Switzerland

July 1999 – August 1999

Network Administrator

National Versicherung · Basel, Switzerland

Skills

Technical focus

Operating systems

Windows Server 2019–2025

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)

Firewall

FortiGate · pfSense

Databases

MySQL · Oracle · PostgreSQL

Development

Java · Python · PHP

Bash · Regular Expressions · SQL

HTML · CSS · JavaScript

Standards & formats

FHIR · HL7 v2 · GDT

Core competencies

Leadership & team management

Project management & organisation

Customer acquisition & technical consulting

Problem solving & decision making

Languages

Comfortable in multilingual environments

Swiss Germanfluent
Germanfluent
Englishfluent
Frenchnative

Education

Studies & degrees

2003

DEA IAP

Diplôme d’études approfondies

Université de Besançon · Besançon, France

French postgraduate degree at master’s level

Computer science, automation and production · graduated with distinction

2003

Diplôme d’ingénieur

Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard · Belfort, France

French engineering degree at master’s level, computer science

2000

DUT

Diplôme universitaire de technologie

IUT de Belfort-Montbéliard · Montbéliard, France

French higher-education diploma (two-year programme)

Telecommunications and networks

Interests

Outside IT

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