# orbit7.ch: Pawel Kowalski

> Personal site of Pawel Kowalski, a software engineer in Bern, Switzerland with more than 15 years building and running digital products and over 8 in technical leadership. Co-founder of GObugfree and iterativ, former CTO of Mila, currently Tech Lead at Bedag AG. The site has two parts: a set of personal projects tracing a path from vibe-coding experiments to production agentic engineering, and a career page. Pawel runs orbit7 gmbh (Tellstrasse 8, 3014 Bern, Switzerland).

## Pages
- [Projects](https://orbit7.ch/): personal projects, from vibe-coding experiments to production systems built with agentic engineering
- [About and career](https://orbit7.ch/about): full career history, education, languages, and community work

## Projects
- [Klanglabor](https://klanglabor.ch): a browser app to build and hear sound by stacking sine waves and harmonics
- [Klangtreppe](https://klangtreppe.ch): an explainer for the Shepard tone, a sound that seems to rise forever without getting higher
- [verfasst](https://verfasst.ch): the Swiss Federal Constitution grouped by everyday topics, with current initiatives shown in context
- [pointillism](https://pointillism.ch): turns any photo into a field of dots in the browser, in the spirit of Seurat, with everything running client-side
- [HafCoin](https://coin.haus-am-fluss.be/about): a production booking system for the Haus am Fluss coworking house in Bern, built spec-first with AI coding agents
- [Spec-driven agentic engineering](https://coin.haus-am-fluss.be/training): the spec-driven, test-harnessed method behind HafCoin, with the engineer shifting from author to reviewer and spec-writer
- [Product Management Festival](https://productmanagementfestival.com): a production website for the product-management conference in Zurich, which Pawel co-organises
- [Vibehuus](https://vibehuus.be): a local unconference in Bern on vibe-coding and agentic engineering, co-founded with Jeremy Isnard

## Career
- Tech Lead, Bedag AG (2023 to present, Bern): tech lead on a new core banking system for the Canton of Bern's tax administration
- Co-Founder, GObugfree AG (2021 to present, Zurich): a Swiss bug-bounty platform where vetted researchers find and report vulnerabilities for companies
- Chief Technology Officer, Mila AG (2018 to 2021, Zurich): led Product and Engineering for a marketplace connecting technicians with customers
- Co-Founder, iterativ GmbH (2011 to 2018, Bern): a boutique software-engineering company building digital products for new business ideas
- Application Engineer, UBS AG (2005 to 2010, Zurich): built a core component of the ISToolset portfolio-management platform

## Community
- Co-organises the Product Management Festival, out of a passion for digital products, together with Agnes and Cosima

## Optional
- [Full site text](https://orbit7.ch/llms-full.txt): the complete text of the projects and about pages as Markdown
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paweloque/): Pawel Kowalski's professional profile