Sovereign, Managed Kubernetes - Made in Switzerland

Christian Dietrich serves as Product Manager for Cloud Services, overseeing both Swisscom’s Kubernetes Service and their Enterprise Application Cloud. Prior to joining Swisscom in 2024, he spent 14 years developing his IT expertise at Deutsche Telekom in Germany. Christian earned a BEng in Telecommunication and a MSc in Computing.

Fabio Berchtold is a Lead Engineer at Swisscom, with over 22 years of experience. He architects cloud-native solutions and leads the development of Swisscom’s next-gen Kubernetes platform. Fabio specializes in resilient, automated infrastructure, contributes to open source, and shares practical strategies for scalable, modern application delivery.

I was born in rural Spain in the '90s and have spent the last 10 years working closely with open source and cloud native communities on public and private companies, R&D, education, and science.

When I’m not in front of a screen, I’ve played over 160 escape room games. I enjoy cooking, designing board games, and I'm interested in social and environmental issues and how technology can improve our lives and bring us closer together.

Sandro is a seasoned systems engineer with more than a decade of experience in cloud technologies, including many years of working extensively with Kubernetes. He joined Switch some five years ago, where he focuses on promoting Kubernetes adoption and making it more accessible and its use more efficient and cost-effective for Swiss research and higher education institutions. After helping build both the platform and the team around it, Sandro now serves as the Product Owner for Switch Cloud Kubernetes.