Ben Zellerhoff
ben@zellerhoff.ch

Hi, I’m Ben.

I’m a software developer apprentice at Swisscom.

I currently lead a team of 13 students and apprentices building internal AI products. I’m interested in language, software, and everything in between — currently learning more about NLP and machine learning.

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01 Some projects

Deepfake Awareness

An internal learning project about synthetic media and how to recognise it.

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Repository Summary Bot

A tool that gives developers a quick introduction to an unfamiliar codebase.

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El Hongo

Designed and built the portfolio and artwork archive for illustrator Jonas Aellig—from the visual concept to the Next.js implementation and iterations based on his feedback.

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El Hongo landing page with a black-and-white illustration by Jonas Aellig beside oversized artist typography El Hongo artwork archive with a collection list and a black-and-white illustration by Jonas Aellig

02 Vitae

  1. Swisscom

    I lead Team Halo’s AI group, where we build internal AI tools for Swisscom. I still write code, but a growing part of my work is figuring out what we should build, organising projects, and supporting the people working on them.

  2. Literargymnasium Rämibühl

    Matura thesis exploring language acquisition and what makes learning effective. Graded 6.0/6.0 and nominated for the 2024 VEGL Prize.

  3. University of Zurich planned

    BSc Computational Linguistics