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Anes Hodza.

Full-Stack, Security & AI-Engineer.

Location
Aargau, Switzerland
Email
anes@centrolabs.ch
GitHub
github.com/aneshodza
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/aneshodza

Work experience

Jan 2026 · present

Zurich

Co-founder · Centro Labs

Co-founded Centro Labs, where I built LocalMate, an agentic AI assistant that answers questions over an organisation’s own documents through the Model Context Protocol. It won Hack Winterthur 2026, handles around 600 queries a week as a live prototype, and is now in talks with larger companies about adoption, alongside an invitation to exhibit at Startup Nights. Product, architecture and go-to-market are all mine.

  • TypeScript
  • LangGraph.js
  • NestJS
  • Bun
  • Angular
  • Qdrant
  • PostgreSQL
  • MCP

Jan 2026 · present

Lenzburg

Security & Full-Stack Software Engineer · Diartis AG

I build C# and Angular features for means-tested social-assistance software that shorten the tasks caseworkers do every day, working test-first in a team of about twenty. I brought AI-assisted development to the team, a Claude Code setup with reusable skills that saves fifteen to sixty minutes each time it stands in for plain coding, and I investigate CVEs to make sure none reach production. Most of my focus is security engineering.

  • C#
  • .NET
  • Angular
  • Scrum
  • TDD

Aug 2024 · present

Zurich

Teaching Assistant in Theoretical Computer Science · ZHAW

Each week I run small-group tutoring for the Theoretical Computer Science course (THIN), a cohort of about 160, on Turing machines, automata and formal grammars. The students who come tend to do markedly better than average in the final exam.

  • Theoretical computer science
  • Teaching

Aug 2023 · Dec 2025

Zurich

Full-Stack Software Engineer · Sitrox AG

Full-stack work on an internal Ruby on Rails framework. My main project was a data-warehousing pipeline that combined supplier purchase prices, competitor prices and government pricing rules to compute competitive retail prices; there I took a join over roughly 750,000 by 6 rows from a multi-day runtime down to about an hour. I also built the software for Switzerland’s only blister centre, interfacing directly with its packaging machines and scanners.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Linux
  • SSH
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • PowerShell

Aug 2022 · Jul 2023

Wallisellen

Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern · Renuo AG

My first full-stack role, on a four-person Rails team. I shipped roughly a feature a day at 100% test coverage.

Projects & research

  • 2026

    Evaluating LLMs on Text-to-SQL

    A course paper on translating plain-language questions into SQL. Using StatBot.Swiss, a benchmark built on real Swiss federal statistics, I built and compared three systems on LangChain and LangGraph: a fixed grounding pipeline, a ReAct agent that probes the database for the right values before it writes a query, and a hybrid of the two. The interesting part is the grounding, getting the exact categorical values, the right year and the right spatial level, rather than the SQL syntax itself.

  • 2026

    MNIST digit recognition by hand

    A neural network for handwritten digits, written by hand in TypeScript with no machine-learning framework anywhere in it. I implemented the forward pass and back-propagation myself, a multilayer perceptron with ReLU hidden layers and a softmax over the ten digits. Trained on 50,000 images and tested on 9,000, it lands at about 95% accuracy. There is a small web version too, where you draw a digit on a canvas and it gets centred by its centre of mass before the network sees it.

  • 2025

    mini-retrieve: a search engine in Rust

    A search engine I wrote from scratch in Rust, with none of the usual libraries doing the work: my own tokeniser and stemmer, stop-word filtering, an inverted index and BM25 ranking, all behind an interactive shell for inspecting the index. It was my deepest dive into applied low-level and high-performance programming, and the finished engine answers a Cranfield query in roughly 70 microseconds.

  • 2025

    Query Errors & Cognitive Variance

    A short paper on how input errors break search and how cheaply that can be fixed. I simulated three kinds of error grounded in medical research, the typos of a healthy typist, the tremor-driven slips of Parkinson's, and the letter confusions of dyslexia, and measured BM25 retrieval with and without a correction step that maps each word to its nearest match by Levenshtein distance.

  • 2025

    Numerical methods (HM2)

    About twenty numerical methods I implemented in Python while studying for Higher Mathematics 2 at ZHAW, kept as small runnable scripts rather than notes. It covers a good stretch of the course: Newton's method with its damped and simplified variants, cubic splines, Lagrange interpolation and least-squares fits, Romberg integration, Runge-Kutta and Adams-Bashforth for differential equations, and a few applied problems like a pendulum and a rocket trajectory. It is one of the harder courses at the school, and working the methods out like this is what earned me a 6.0.

Education

2023 · 2027

GPA 5.3

BSc Computer Science · ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Studying computer science with a focus on information retrieval, NLP, AI and cyber security, currently at a 5.3 GPA. The plan afterwards is an MSc in computer science at ETH Zürich.

2019 · 2023

final grade 5.2

Wirtschaftsmatur (Swiss commercial baccalaureate) · Kantonsschule Büelrain Winterthur

The Swiss commercial baccalaureate, completed in parallel with the IT apprenticeship. Final grade 5.2.

2019 · 2023

final grade 5.5

Informatiker EFZ (Federal VET Diploma in IT) · Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur

A four-year apprenticeship as an IT specialist (Informatiker EFZ). Final grade 5.5.

Achievements

Skills

Languages
TypeScript · C# · Ruby · Rust · C · Python · SQL
Frameworks
Angular · NestJS · ASP.NET · Ruby on Rails · Astro · LangGraph.js
Data
PostgreSQL · MySQL · Qdrant · Drizzle
Infrastructure
Docker · CI/CD · Bun · Turborepo
Concepts
MCP · RAG · Agentic systems · NLP · IR · Secure development · Scrum · TDD

Languages

German Native
C2
Bosnian Native
C2
English
C2
French
B2