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My name is Micha Rieser. My full name is Micha Louis Rieser. I was born on August 7, 1975 in Zurich. I grew up in the Aargau community of Bremgarten, where I spent my school years. After compulsory schooling in Bremgarten, I went to the High school (cantonal school) in Wohlen, but I voluntarily dropped out before taking my Matura. I left home in 1995 and have been living in Zurich ever since. I completed my apprenticeship as an electronics technician in Au ZH and in Zurich (Alcatel Schweiz AG) from 1995 to 1999. I then worked as an application developer for a small telecom company and later as a web programmer in the web factory of Condorfilms AG. I lost my job there as a result of the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2001 and found no equivalent employment. Wanted were mainly only people, with very high programming skills. This led to my decision to study computer science. I studied communication and computer science at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW (2002 to 2005). After that I worked for several companies as a software developer (Ergon Informatik AG 2006 to 2008, Phion AG 2008, Statistik Stadt Zürich 2009 to 2014). In addition to my job, I ran Wikipedia as a hobby very intensively since 2007 and wrote several articles and took care of community matters. This led to me becoming the first official Wikipedian in Residence in Switzerland in the second half of 2013 at the Swiss Federal Archives. I was on the new Open Data team at Statistik Stadt Zürich and worked as Wikipedian in Residence at the Swiss National Library until November 2014. I was project manager of the Swiss Open Cultural Hackathon, which took place in Bern in February 2015. I worked again as Wikipedian in Residence at the University Library of Basel from March to October and completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Library and Archive Science at the University of Zurich from August 2015 to May 2017. I worked as a scientific assistant at the Swiss Federal Archives from November 2015 to October 2018. Since November 2018, I have been an academic librarian at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.