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I'm Elie

I build distributed systems and developer tools, blending software with physics and rocketry to solve real-world problems with clarity and precision.

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I build systems where software, physics, and hardware meet — designed to scale, built to be trusted.

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Hi, I'm Elie — a physics student based in Switzerland with a deep passion for systems, computing, and how things work at every level.

I began programming at age 10 and never stopped exploring. Over the years, I’ve gone from building basic websites to running a full homelab, designing distributed systems, and contributing to student rocketry as part of my university’s team. Whether I’m working on backend infrastructure, embedded avionics, or real-time telemetry, I love building tools that are reliable, scalable, and grounded in real-world engineering.

To engineer is to bring clarity to chaos - where each line of code, every design, serves a meaningful and lasting purpose

My work

Avionics SpaceRace

Together with a teammate, I developed the avionics system for an L1-class rocket enabling live telemetry transmission to the ground station and remote commands during flight. It also autonomously handled critical flight operations, including parachute unreefing.

Avionics SR
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Deploy

A fully open-source alternative to Heroku and DigitalOcean, designed from the ground up with redundancy, scalability, and self-hosting in mind. Built to simplify deployment without compromising on control or reliability.

Recent posts

VPS on your Home Network

Learn how to securely connect your VPS to your home network using WireGuard VPN. This guide covers setting up a VPN tunnel, assigning local IPs, and protecting services with firewall rules.

VPS on your Home Network

Elie Baier

To engineer is to bring clarity to chaos - where each line of code, every design, serves a meaningful and lasting purpose

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