Hi!

I am Méline Sieber.

TL; DR: I juggle zeros and ones, play with language and tickle ears: A natural-born analyst with the skill set of a computer scientist, sinologist and journalist.

I currently work as a…

cyber security analyst and in incident response. Among other things, I'm the Pythonista in residence, automate processes and take care of CTI (Cyber Threat Intelligence).

I am a…

… computer scientist with a BSc from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST, formerly HSR). My thesis is a network automation project in Python that manages data stored in various network device inventories. Infosec has always been my field of interest, but developing tools in Python is a passion as well.

… journalist. I completed a two-year traineeship at the Swiss Public Radio and Television (SRF), which taught me all the required skills to be a journalist and to create audio, video and online news pieces.

… sinologist with an MA summa cum laude from the University of Zurich (lic.phil., "Lizentiat" in German). An abbreviated version of my thesis is published in: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 66(4):1031-1080. Yes, I know and have learned classical and modern Chinese. My specialty is Ming and Qing literature, especially Shanghai literature from the 19th century. I follow current affairs in the Chinese-speaking realm, even though my current work is not related to it.

I used to work as a…

… journalist at the Swiss Public Radio and Television. I worked at SRF Digital, which covers all things tech for all SRF radio channels. It had a weekly podcast (7.7.2006-31.1.2025) and used to exist on YouTube. My work covered traditional radio reporting and podcasting, but I also wrote online texts, edited videos, and did live-streaming. Even though I left journalism, the writing urge stays with me.

… Python developer at INS, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil. I was the main developer of "NUTS", which uses pytest and nornir to test a desired network configuration against a real network.

Find me here:

My online presence is on Mastodon. If you're human, say hi by connecting the strings of hello_cybersim, the email sign, and the domain name of https://proton.me.

You can find my projects on Github, even though most of them are set to private. My hobby project is nobubo, a pdf n-up tool that assembles digital sewing patterns for larger printing formats.

My writing urge is expressed in cybersim's blog, where I write down my texts instead of thinking about them.