Application development · Switzerland

Hey there, I'm Bareth.

Fourth-year apprentice. Salesforce team at Sunrise.

I build web applications, backend services and tools that make everyday work easier. At Sunrise, I’m continuing my apprenticeship in the Salesforce team after a year with Wilmaa Backend.

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About me

Software for real workflows

Bareth Balakanthan

Application Developer Apprentice at Sunrise · Year 4 of 4

My apprenticeship has taken me from foundational training at ICT Berufsbildungscenter to building applications in Digital Avengers Lab, backend development at Wilmaa, and now the Salesforce team. Alongside my training, I create self-hosted open-source projects.

Schlieren / Zürich, Switzerland

German: native or bilingual · English: fluent

Technologies I work with

Languages & backend

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaDjangoFlaskFastAPISpring

Web & data

ReactHTML / CSSBootstrapSQLMySQL / MariaDBPostgreSQLMongoDBSQLite

Tools & platforms

GitDockerGitLab CI/CDBitbucketTerraformAWSGoogle Cloud RunSalesforce

My journey

Four years, different perspectives

  1. 4th year

    Aug 2026 – present

    Sunrise

    Salesforce team

    Continuing my application development apprenticeship in the Salesforce team.

  2. 3rd year

    Aug 2025 – Aug 2026

    Sunrise

    Wilmaa Backend Team

    Backend development with Flask and FastAPI. Experience listed with AWS, MongoDB and Bitbucket; Absence Hub is part of this chapter.

  3. 2nd year

    Aug 2024 – Aug 2025

    Sunrise

    Digital Avengers Lab

    Web development, SQL, frontend and backend development in the Digital Avengers Lab.

  4. 1st year

    Aug 2023 – Jul 2024

    ICT Berufsbildungscenter AG

    Foundation year

    The first year of my software development apprenticeship in Zürich.

Education

TBZ Technische Berufsschule Zürich

Aug 2023 – Aug 2027

Certification

Certificate in Advanced English · C1

Cambridge English

Score 194 · issued June 2026

Experience and education as listed on my LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn

Selected work

Projects I’ve built

From apprenticeship applications to self-hosted open-source tools. Open a project for its features, technologies and screenshots.

PythonDjangoAuth0Docker

Absence Hub

A shared team calendar for absences, recurring appointments and SAP ProTime imports.

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PythonFlaskMySQLSQLAlchemy

Dayplanner · Flask

Daily planning with measurable goals, project organisation and a trainer overview.

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PythonDjangoMySQLPandas

Notenkonferenztool

An IPA review workspace for experts, grading checks and documented corrections.

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PythonFlaskLDAPSQLAlchemy

LDAP Password Management

An email-verified password reset workflow connected to an LDAP directory.

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TypeScriptNode.jsMCPSQLite

steward

A self-hosted Discord administration service that coding agents control through MCP.

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TypeScriptReactExpressSQLite

herald

A multi-server Discord bot and dashboard for YouTube upload notifications.

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PythonFastAPIReactPostgreSQL

Kestrel

A paper-first trading desk with a risk engine, audit trails and an installable PWA.

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RustAxumReactffmpeg

media_manager

A self-hosted web app that downloads, converts and compresses media, then cleans up after itself.

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PythonDjangoMySQLBootstrap

Dayplanner · Django

The original Django task planner that preceded my Flask implementation.

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Let’s connect

Have a project or an idea?

You can reach me by email or find my work and experience on GitHub and LinkedIn.

bareth.balakanthan@sunrise.net LinkedIn GitHub / BBareth