Engineering consultancy · Zurich
The harder the problem,
the more interesting it gets.
Strategic leadership, hands-on engineering, and the relentless energy to turn complex challenges into clear solutions — from company strategy to deep technology.
Fields we know first-hand
Fintech & payments
Energy markets
Industrial automation
Embedded to cloud
01Services
Four ways to engage us.
Every engagement starts with your problem, not with our rate card.
Software Engineering
The system exists only as a plan, or it exists and misbehaves.
We design and build: web and mobile applications, backend services, data pipelines, machine control, embedded firmware, and the software that makes your hardware do its job. Senior work from someone who has shipped in regulated and industrial environments.
Typical engagement: project-based, weeks to months, fixed scope where the scope can honestly be fixed.
Fractional CTO
You need technical leadership at board level, but not a full-time hire.
We own your technology direction a day or two per week: architecture, hiring plans, vendor decisions, and a roadmap your investors can question. CTO judgment without CTO payroll.
Typical engagement: 1–2 days per week, three months and up.
Interim Management
Your engineering lead left, or the role does not exist yet.
We run the team while you search properly. Delivery keeps moving, decisions get made, and your permanent hire inherits a working organisation instead of a rescue job.
Typical engagement: full-time or close to it, 3–9 months.
Technical Consulting
A decision is coming up that is expensive to get wrong.
Build or buy. Rewrite or refactor. This vendor or that one. We do the analysis, put a recommendation in writing, and defend it in front of whoever needs convincing.
Typical engagement: days to weeks.
How we work
Senior only. The person you brief is the person who builds.
Something that runs, early. Then short iterations, each one usable, until it does the job.
Honest scope. Fixed price where the scope can be fixed. By effort where it cannot — and we tell you which before we start.
02Track record
Where we've delivered.
Fintech & payments
Data strategy and engineering for global payment systems. We know what “regulated” means in practice: audits, retention rules, and code that has to survive both.
Energy markets
Engineering and data work in energy trading environments, where a wrong number costs real money within minutes.
Industrial automation & machine vision
Real-time visual quality control and machine control for precision manufacturing. Hardware does not accept excuses.
Embedded to cloud
Linux kernel and driver work at one end, web applications and data pipelines at the other. Useful when your product spans the whole stack, because most products now do.
We name no clients on this page without their consent. Specific references are available in conversation.
03Founder
Who you'll be working with.
Schenker Labs is founder-led. Every engagement is run by Jörg Benedikt Schenker: fourteen years across fintech, energy, and industrial automation, including years as CTO and as Head of Data Management, with hands-on engineering throughout — from ETH spin-offs to global payment systems.
When an engagement needs more hands, we bring in vetted specialists, openly.
04Side project
Built after hours.
Consulting keeps us sharp. Building keeps us honest.
Independent and non-commercial, written in their spare time by the founder and a co-author. Not a Schenker Labs product — but a fair sample of what two people can build when the goal is clear.
05Contact
Start with an email.
Describe your situation in a few lines. That is enough.
Zurich, Switzerland
What happens next
- 1You write a few lines about your situation.
- 2We reply promptly, usually with questions.
- 3A 30-minute call to see whether there is a fit. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.