Josija Nydegger

I'm a civil engineering student living in Lyss with my wife Prisca, and I'm interested in making engineering work easier with custom software.

Currently

I study civil engineering part-time at Bern University of Applied Sciences in Burgdorf and work as a working student in infrastructure engineering at BSB + Partner in Bern. In November 2026, I'm moving to structural engineering for buildings at Baukonstrukt AG in Biel.

Focus areas

• Structural engineering
• Digital construction and BIM (e.g. with IfcOpenShell)
• Numerical simulation

Background

Before that, I studied civil engineering at ETH Zurich and completed a first year of computer science. In my bachelor's thesis, I investigated the fluid-structure interaction of a wind turbine blade in COMSOL. After that, I worked in the social sector: in the office of the social services department in Opfikon and, during my Swiss civilian service, at a low-threshold counseling center in Zurich. I then returned to civil engineering.

Outside of work

I build small tools (GitHub) and run anything from 10K to marathon distance (Strava).

Academic work

• Analyse der Einsturzwahrscheinlichkeit von Strassenbrücken in den USA

  2026

  Semester project, Bern University of Applied Sciences (in progress)

• Simulating the fluid-structure interaction of a wind turbine blade in COMSOL

  2021

  Bachelor's thesis, ETH Zurich · co-authored with Fabrizio Bruschetti

  PDF

Projects

• QR-tool

  Prototype for one-way, network-free data transfer from a computer to a smartphone using a sequence of QR codes, with optional AES-256 encryption and fountain codes to recover lost frames.

  Code Demo HTML / JavaScript

• weather-bot

  Telegram bot that automatically sends a daily weather report, built on OpenWeatherMap and GitHub Actions.

  Code Python GitHub Actions

Blog RSS

The first posts are coming soon.

Contact

The easiest way to reach me is on LinkedIn.