Hi, my name is
Aymen Furter.
I build "thinking machines" running in the cloud.
Solution Engineer at Microsoft designing cloud-native architectures and AI agent implementations for Swiss enterprises through hands-on prototyping, hackathons, and deep-dive technical sessions.
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Professional Experience
My professional journey in technology
Boxalino
PRODYNA
Zurich
Microsoft
Microsoft
Sep 2022 – Present Zurich, SwitzerlandSolution Engineer
Mar 2025 – Present- Designing cloud-native architectures and AI agent implementations for Swiss enterprises through hands-on prototyping and deep-dive technical sessions
- Evangelizing coding agents and LLM-powered developer workflows, helping engineering teams integrate tools like GitHub Copilot into their SDLC
- Building proof-of-concepts for RAG pipelines, MCP integrations, and agentic systems on Azure infrastructure
Cloud Solution Architect
Sep 2022 – Feb 2025- Architected Azure landing zones, containerized workloads, and AI integration patterns through hackathons and architecture design sessions
- Built agent-based code review platform and investigation tooling with structured evaluation frameworks and observability hooks
Zurich Insurance Group
Jun 2017 – Aug 2022 Zurich, SwitzerlandTech Lead / Platform Architect
Jun 2017 – Aug 2022- Architected large-scale API gateway and microservices infrastructure handling 2M+ monthly transactions
- Led cloud migration initiatives moving critical workloads to Azure
- Operated and maintained business-critical Kubernetes clusters
PRODYNA (Schweiz) AG
Jan 2015 – May 2017 Zurich, SwitzerlandIT Consultant
Jan 2015 – May 2017- Delivered expert consulting on software architecture for enterprise clients
- Designed APIs and integration solutions using Java and Apache Camel
- Implemented microservices architectures for financial services clients
Boxalino AG
May 2007 – Dec 2014 Zurich, SwitzerlandSenior Java Developer
May 2007 – Dec 2014- Led development of e-government and B2B/B2C platforms using Java, modern frontend frameworks, and REST APIs
- Built native iOS and hybrid mobile applications
- Designed and implemented scalable backend systems
Featured Projects
Solution accelerators and AI experiments
Voice Live API Sales Coach
AI-powered voice training for sales professionals using Azure AI services with real-time conversations and performance analysis.
Microagents Framework
An experimental framework for dynamically creating self-improving agents that learn across chat sessions.
Highlights
- Self-improving agents that create and validate themselves
- Persistent agent storage with learning across sessions
- Parallelized agent creation with validation 'Judge' phase
- 28 pretrained agents included for various tasks
Stack
Core
Python with OpenAI LLMs
Embeddings
OpenAI Embeddings
Storage
SQLite for persistent agents
UI Options
CLI (Textual) & Web (Gradio)
Monaco Copilot Demo
Sample implementation of AI-assisted code editor with intelligent suggestions, validation, and chat integration for web IDEs.
Highlights
- AI-powered code suggestions triggered via keyboard shortcuts
- Real-time XML validation with error highlighting
- Integrated chat for code assistance and debugging
- Custom theming support for Monaco editor
Stack
Editor
Monaco Editor (VS Code engine)
AI Backend
OpenAI GPT-4 API
Features
Code completion, validation, chat
Build
Webpack, Babel, ESLint
SlideFinder
Search & build custom decks from Microsoft Build & Ignite presentations using multi-agent AI workflows.
Highlights
- Semantic search across 10,000+ conference slides with AI-powered retrieval
- Multi-agent architecture (Architect, Critic, Judge) for intelligent deck building
- Automated PPTX generation merging slides from multiple presentations
- Natural language deck creation - describe your topic, get a draft deck
Stack
Backend
FastAPI, Python 3.11+
Search
Azure AI Search (Agentic Retrieval)
AI Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework
Processing
python-pptx for slide extraction
Recent Writing
Thoughts on AI, cloud architecture, and building intelligent systems
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Jan 20, 2026
Deep Research on your own data with Microsoft Foundry
Jan 12, 2026
Stop Micromanaging Your AI with Ralph
Jan 7, 2026
How to Effectively Use Opus 4.5 in Copilot
Dec 15, 2025
Building an AI-Powered Slide Discovery Tool with Microsoft Agent Framework
Oct 15, 2025
Environment Engineering: Platform Engineering for AI Agents
Sep 18, 2025
Agent Routing with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Purview
Aug 11, 2025
Building AI Agents That Users Trust
Aug 5, 2025
Agentic Web Crawling & NL2SQL with Microsoft Fabric's Data Agent
Jul 20, 2025
Document Your AI Agents Like Code: A GitHub Template for A2A Agent Inventories
Jul 14, 2025
The Future is Composable: Building Interoperable AI Systems with MCP and A2A Protocols
Jul 5, 2025
Databricks-SQL at Your Agent's Fingertips via MCP in GitHub Copilot
Jan 5, 2025
Build Tools, Not Prompts – Extend GitHub Copilot with Task-Specific Agents
Jan 4, 2025
You Can Now Connect Your Own Model for GitHub Copilot 🤯
Jan 3, 2025
Document Creation with AI Agent Workflows
Dec 9, 2024
Generating Easy-to-Understand Changelogs for Document Revisions
Oct 19, 2024
Building an Interactive Text-to-Podcast Experience with GPT-4o Real Time API
Jun 30, 2024
Elevating RAG with Multi-Agent Systems
Apr 10, 2024
Integrating AI-Powered Coding Assistance into Your Custom Web IDE
Feb 18, 2024
Chat with Your Photos: Revolutionizing Asset Cataloging with GPT-4 Vision
Dec 30, 2023
Integrate PromptFlow into a CI/CD pipeline (On-Agent)
Oct 30, 2023
Relevance and Recency in AI Apps
Aug 13, 2023
The Journey of Crafting an AI Chatbot
Jun 24, 2023
11 Tips to Supercharge Your Pet Projects on Azure Kubernetes Without Emptying Your Wallet!
Jun 8, 2023
Azure API Management: Validating Multiple OIDC Issuers for a Single API
May 18, 2023
Azure OpenAI with APIM 🕵️
Mar 19, 2023
No Humans Needed: How ChatGPT Builds Apps Without You
Feb 27, 2023
Exploring the Capabilities of Large Language Models: Analyzing Unstructured Text 🕵️
Jan 22, 2023
Running a window manager on top of WSL2
Jan 1, 2023
Building a Unity game in one day using ChatGPT and DALL·E 2
Dec 4, 2022
Some Experiments with ChatGPT
Dec 1, 2022
Accessing ARM preview features in Terraform
Oct 30, 2022
Application Insights for Java Applications: Triggering Profiling Sessions Automatically
Oct 1, 2022
Setting App Configuration Values with Special Characters using Azure CLI
Sep 1, 2022
Spinning up a temporary desktop environment within GitHub Codespaces
Aug 1, 2022
Using Selenium within GitHub Actions
Jul 1, 2022
Using an iPad for Coding
Jun 1, 2022
Reading From Sheets During a Batch Job
May 1, 2022
Lessons learned from moving to linux-arm64
Apr 1, 2022
Extract named entities using Azure Cognitive Services
Mar 1, 2022
Annotate pictures using imagemagick
Jan 12, 2022
Log4j Vulnerabilities and Apache Karaf (CVE-2021–44228)
Dec 12, 2021
How to Upgrade log4j
Mar 4, 2018
Himawari-8 Live Background in i3
Dec 21, 2017
Looking Glass
Jun 1, 2017
Upscale Photos using Neural Enhance online
Apr 30, 2017
Flexible Webservice Orchestration on Talend ESB using Apache Camel's Content Enricher Functionality
Mar 17, 2017
Pushing Data to Elastic Search in Apache Camel
Jan 20, 2017
Visualize Talend Service Activity Monitoring using SAMvisual
Dec 29, 2016
Is Magnolia-CMS the right fit for Microsites?
Dec 20, 2016
RescueBomb – A multiplayer Bomberman/Rescue the princess game
Dec 11, 2016
Reviewing SSH Activity using Elastic Search / Kibana
Nov 10, 2016
Orchestration on Talend ESB using Apache Camel & Apache CXF
Jul 14, 2009
Eclipse as a Firefox / Thunderbird Extension IDE