About Me
I Love to Create, Learn, and Do Good Things
Hello, my name is Dominik Maglia. I was born in 1995 in Winterthur, Switzerland. I'm a design- and technology nerd with over ten years of experience and a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Administration.
Meaningful creation excites me and a lot of my life is focused on creating. I love what I do — be it an app, a website, a physical product, a drawing, music, or even a company. I lay special emphasis on meaningful creation; I generally believe that our modern society already has too much stuff and that we don't need more – rather less, but better. I love to use technology to make life simpler and more joyful — all of my recent apps fall under this category.
Trajectory
How I Got Here
- 2023–present
App Lane
Founded App Lane with the acquisition of Mowbius, a lawn-care CRM, in October 2023. The July 2025 acquisition of Menu Bar Controller and Lyd further professionalized the endeavor, and I've been building these apps since. It's still a side-project that I run alongside my main focus with Lightray.
- 2020–present
Lightray Innovation
Co-founded Lightray with my business partner to professionalize my then side-project Korona (that later became Photone). We build best-in-class light measurement apps using the cameras already in people's smartphones.
- 2018–2022
Corporate Exposure (Belimo)
Worked as a project leader to gain experience in a large organization. Led the concept and UX for Belimo's digital tools — used across Europe, Asia, and North America. Learned how to navigate scale, coordinate globally, and ship in slow-moving environments with legacy complexity.
- 2016–2017
IoT Startup
Co-founded Rieglia, an IoT company building low-power sensors and a cloud platform for remote plant monitoring. We ran on LoRaWAN, became a Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telco) partner before their network officially launched, and sold the intellectual property mid-2017 to what is now Akenza. I learned more business lessons in those 12 months than in the four years before.
- 2015
Audio Electronics
Built the electronics for the blackDSP — a 2+2 channel audio DSP platform for Swiss audio startup Rocket Science. I designed the full circuit and 4-layer PCB. I was deeply into audio electronics at the time and this was the first time I turned a schematic into something someone could actually buy.
Beyond Work
Outside of work, I train almost daily — mostly road cycling and running. I built my HRM Heart Rate Monitor app because I needed it for my own training and couldn't find anything that worked the way I wanted. My creative hobbies include music, photography, and digital design.
