Sascha Aeppli

From the Commodore 64 to Software Development

The first encounter with computers was a Commodore 64 at a school friend’s house. The fascination with computer graphics and geometry was immediate. Soon, graphical experiments followed using GW-BASIC under MS-DOS, long before the formulas behind them were fully understood. As a teenager, his interest expanded to hardware and electrical engineering. Building speakers, creating lighting effects, and making music on the keyboard defined this period.

Studies and Foundations

After a brief detour into electrical engineering at a university of applied sciences, Sascha discovered his passion for mathematics. This led to a degree in mathematics (BSc equivalent) with a focus on computer graphics and CAD. During this phase, he taught himself C and C++. This solid foundation still shapes his approach to algorithms, performance, and system design today.

Career Path and Expertise

Sascha’s professional journey began in the automotive industry, focusing on image processing and machine learning. He then transitioned into web development with .NET and C#, mainly for internal tools in banking and logistics. Later, he returned to C++ to work on digital signal processing in the audio field—developing mixing consoles, custom Linux distributions with real-time kernels, and self-developed PCI drivers. During this time, he also discovered Node.js (version 0.3) and early Angular.

As co-founder and CTO of a startup, he built a SaaS solution for the economic evaluation and modeling of renewable energy projects. This was followed by his time at Liip AG, where Sascha worked as a developer and later as an architect on projects using TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Go. His main focus areas included large e-commerce platforms (APIs and backends), banking frontends, and process digitalization at universities. For example, tools for major/minor selection or AI-driven testing platforms.

Role at Neovo

He combines deep system expertise with modern web and cloud architecture. His focus areas include scalable e-commerce and platform backends, robust APIs, integrations with ERP and third-party systems, and DevOps practices that enable reliable releases. He considers business logic, performance, and operations from the very start, translating requirements into clean architectures and actionable roadmaps.

Beyond the Screen

Sascha finds balance in family life. He enjoys going to the sauna, cooking passionately, and tinkering in his workshop. Technology and science remain personal passions as well. Whenever time allows, he dedicates himself to music.

Contact

Sascha designs and builds scalable platforms and e-commerce backends, delivers stable APIs, and orchestrates integrations all the way into production. He unites architecture, engineering, and delivery - leading teams reliably to go-live. Ideal for projects with high demands on performance, security, and extensibility.