About Us
Introducing TechForge founder
Christian Wehrli
Personal introduction and summary bio.
Christian Wehrli
founder techforge
After 20 years in the mainframe and IT business, covering all technical and management roles, Christian opened his own venture techforge. Helping customers to modernize and optimize their mainframe and linux environments.
As well as supporting their move to the cloud.
- 25 years experience in IT software, platform & products
- 10 years leadership at software vendor for software and product implementation services
- Worked successfully with countless ISV and implementation partners (Kyndryl, Accenture, HCLtech, Tech Mahindra, Cap Gemini, apsware, LRS and many more!)
- Working together with Accenture & Kyndryl for Modernization Advisory and Implementation
- 15 years management and architecture of critical mission infrastructure & products
- Transformation Manager for 10+ Forbes500 companies in critical mission infrastructure
- Successfully moved several mainframe and linux environments, products and applications to the Azure and AWS cloud
- Experience with over 300 mainframe products
At Swisscom, Christian has helped us architect and execute the migration of our legacy platform and its product portfolio and save 60% OPEX cost. With his help we managed to understand our legacy environment. He streamlined and consolidated our platform, system tools and productivity products, as well as our operational procedures together with his team.
Markus Tschumper Head of IT at Swisscom 
apsware has worked with Christian on large several mainframe-to-cloud conversions. We were always impressed by his broad knowledge, quick grasp, and ability to get to the heart of complex issues.
Our partnership has been characterized by seamless teamwork, precise project execution, and a deep understanding of complex processes.
It is always a pleasure to work with such capable experts as Christian and we look forward to our next projects with him. We highly recommend working with him.
Peter Thiermann CEO apsware 
At LzLabs Christian managed our delivery organisation, and helped organisations transform their legacy IT and product landscapes successfully. His customers were always very excited when working with him. He excels especially in architecting, transitioning and standardizing large IT platforms or product portfolios.
Thilo Rockmann CEO LzLabs 