Marc Bickel

I like building things and solving hard problems. Co-founder and CTO at Fume.

❯Previously: consulting, Web3 research, EPFL

❯Based in Switzerland

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Updated: February 2026

Building: Fume — helping companies navigate their digital transformation.

Learning: Italian, systems thinking

Reading: Currently working through my backlog

Thinking about: How AI changes the way we build software

## Languages

🇫🇷FrenchNative

🇦🇩CatalanNative

🇬🇧EnglishFluent

🇪🇸SpanishFluent

🇩🇪GermanProfessional

🇮🇹ItalianLearning

🇷🇺RussianLearning

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Fume// 2022–Present

Co-founder & CTO. Building investment funds without intermediaries. Leading technical vision and company building.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsBlockchain

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Eranos (formerly AWK Group)// 2021–2022

Consultant working on projects in Cybersecurity, Banking, Business Analysis, IT Advisory and Project Management. Learned stakeholder management, business modelling and IT architecture.

ConsultingCybersecurityBanking

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5w155// 2021–2023

Technical team lead and project lead. Team management and decentralized way of working.

LeadershipProject Management

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cryptoro.md

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Cryptoro// 2021–2023

Protocol and token Researcher in the Web3 and crypto space. Explored the DeFi market to find new tokens and trends. Learned tokenomics.

Web3CryptoResearch

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Nothing AG// 2020–2021

Intern developer (6 months) and Master Thesis student (6 months). Master thesis: Modeling company restructuration through visual analysis and data-driven insights under the supervision of Pr. Wegmann from EPFL.

Master ThesisEPFLDevelopment

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EPFL// 2016–2020

Teaching Assistant. Assistant for various coding classes including algorithms, data structures, and software engineering.

TeachingComputer ScienceAlgorithms

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Swiss Special Forces// Winter 2018

Panzer Grenadier. Swiss Army service in the Special Forces.

MilitaryLeadershipDiscipline

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Fume// 2022–Present

Co-founder & CTO. Building investment funds without intermediaries. Leading technical vision and company building.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsBlockchain

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## Publications

Predicting Photographers' Retouching Styles Using GANs

M. Bickel et al. • Computer Vision Conference • 2019

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EPFL// 2018–2021

Computer Science Master — Lausanne, Switzerland

Specialisation: Signal, Images and Interfaces

Relevant Classes:

Decentralised Systems EngineeringDecentralised AlgorithmsEnterprise and System-Oriented ArchitectureInformation Security and PrivacyBusiness Design for IT servicesVirtual RealityExperience DesignMachine LearningComputational Photography

Highlights:

❯1st place in Experience Design project, awarded by Prof. Jeffrey Huang
❯2nd place in the Crédit Suisse Challenge in Lauzhack 2018
❯Student project with the RGL Lab at EPFL: Fitting of wavelength-dependent parametric material models to spectral measurements (Spring 2020)

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me@marcbickel.ch

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