Gandal Foglia

Student assistant in the Department of Information Systems, in Prof. Christine Legner's team, working on the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ). I do it at 20% alongside the MSc.

So far: helping organise CDOIQ Europe (slides, badges, posters, and the event itself) and keeping the CC CDQ wiki up to date.

A client was spending about 120 hours a year moving data between systems by hand. Between July and September 2025 I replaced most of that with n8n, Python and an LLM. The contract values the saving at CHF 6,000 a year. It's still running.

I also went through their clients' manual processes to find what else was worth automating, and looked after the workflows once they were live.

I still help them out informally.

Five summers at Idiap, the AI research institute in Martigny, starting when I was 15. I collected and annotated data for face recognition, vein biometrics, presentation-attack detection, speech and security research. A lot of data was sensitive, so most of the job was handling it carefully.

Co-founded it and ran two editions: 300+ people, ten speakers. I worked with four other people. I was 16 and the MC at the first one. In 2021 I ran the programme and the stage. The 2020 edition was cancelled because of COVID.

Choosing and coaching speakers, logistics, marketing, the TEDx licence, the school partnerships.

A prospecting tool: it finds companies worth contacting, then drafts the first email and the follow-ups.

The paper stamp card from your café, as an app for small businesses. I built it on my own and shipped it to the App Store and Google Play, with a web version.

I've left the name off because of a trademark issue.

A Secret Santa app in several languages: wishlists, budgets, automatic draws, the emails. I made it for my family, and to try some tech I hadn't used.

A small iOS journal. Three-second clips or dual-camera photos, no feed, no followers. Works offline and syncs through iCloud.