Raffael Schneider

Platform engineer and security-focused technologist based in Switzerland. Raffael works across platform automation, edge infrastructure, applied security, and open standards. He speaks at conferences and consults on infrastructure and systems engineering.

The idea behind Cyanea grew from a conviction that life science research deserves the same tooling that transformed software development. Researchers shouldn't be emailing spreadsheets, losing track of protocol versions, or struggling to reproduce analyses from a paper published two years ago. The tools exist for code — version control, forking, collaboration, continuous integration — but bioinformatics and wet-lab science have been left behind.

Cyanea is the result: a federated platform built on a Rust bioinformatics engine that compiles to both native and WebAssembly, an Elixir/Phoenix backend designed for real-time collaboration and fault tolerance, and a community model that respects data sovereignty while enabling open science. The technical choices are deliberate — Rust for performance and safety, Elixir for concurrency and distribution, federation for institutional autonomy.

The conviction is straightforward: trusted, versioned, attributable scientific artifacts — not proprietary notebooks — are the moat in a post-AI world. Cyanea is building that foundation.