David Pacassi Torrico
Software architect and hands-on engineer in Zürich, Switzerland. I build the tooling and define the standards and review workflows that bring agentic development into a team's development process, with Claude Code and Codex in production.
- Now: Software Architect & Developer Backend at Helga, a digital agency in Bern, since March 2026.
- Experience: 18 years in software engineering, applied AI since 2018: from computer vision and NLP prototypes in Liip's data science team to agent workflows today.
- AI engineering: I built Helga AI, a toolkit that gives every project the same agent setup for Claude Code and Codex, with repeatable workflows from specification to code review. I presented it in the talk “From Prompt Chaos to Agent Pipelines”: recording.
- How I work: I specify, direct and review, and coding agents write the code. The decisions stay with me. In public: an open-source World Cup forecasting system whose tips ranked in the top 3% of the SRF prediction game: code on GitHub.
- Open source: maintainer of three Drupal modules for video: Video Style, Responsive Video Style and Video Style: ImageKit. I presented their architecture at DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026, in a talk selected from more than 290 submissions: recording.
- Before Helga: I founded and ran Epsilon Labs GmbH from 2019 to 2026: Drupal platforms, legacy modernisation, Flutter apps and coaching for development teams. Earlier at Liip, Station, PIXELTEX, INM and InnoTix.
- Community: founder and organiser of Flutter Zürich, with 25 meetups and nearly 800 members; board member of the Drupal Association Switzerland from 2018 to 2023.
- Education: BSc in Computer Science from ZHAW; certified in requirements engineering (IREB CPRE-FL) and as a vocational trainer.
- Languages: German and Swiss German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (proficient), French (basic).
- Side project: creator of @justdancingmemes, with more than 60k followers.