Sidrik Blal
Product engineer & co-founder
Lausanne, Switzerland · Swiss citizen · French & English bilingual · also Italian, Spanish & Arabic
Open to work · Product & engineering · Vaud, Geneva or remoteI co-founded a company and built its entire product myself: data model, three-party payments with KYC, mobile apps on both stores, and the legal groundwork around them. Before that, 15+ years of business applications for Swiss SMEs, NGOs and international organisations.
I’m looking for a team where engineers own products from problem to production.
What I’ve built recently
koappy
Co-founder · product & mobile engineer
The company I co-founded, whose product I built end to end: mobile apps on both stores, GPS-tracked visits, Stripe Connect handling fee splits, KYC and payouts, plus the terms and compliance work with our lawyers. 800+ active users, twelve months live. MIT DesignX 2025; SICTIC due diligence 2026.
Hôpiclowns CRM
Designed, built & maintained for 14 years
A custom CRM replacing this Geneva NGO’s legacy accounting software: donor and member tracking, campaigns, financial dashboards, reporting, plus an intranet with scheduling, time tracking and payroll support. Live since 2018 and still in production today.
ProjetReel
Digital product consultant · SmartLab Romande Énergie
A citizen-facing web app to cut the carbon footprint of Rolle (VD). I gathered the requirements with stakeholders, then designed and built the gamification engine, community tools and event booking system.
Credentials
2025
MIT DesignX Fellow
MIT & Le Rosey Innovation Lab
2024
Google Data Analytics
Professional Certificate
2018
IPMA Level D
Certified Project Manager
2004
M.Sc. Information & Decision Systems
UT Troyes, France
“I was afraid I’d meet a technical developer with incomprehensible rhetoric. Instead, Sidrik listened, understood our business needs deeply, and translated them into a tailor-made app ecosystem, operational since 2018.”
Anne Lanfranchi, Director, Hôpiclowns Genève