Lukas has spent the last fifteen years standing up Apple device fleets for Swiss private banks and regulated Liechtenstein trust offices. The work convinced him that the desktop utility layer around iOS — backup, profile authoring, message preservation — is criminally under-documented in technical detail, and that is the gap he writes into.
Background
Lukas trained as a systems engineer at EPFL in Lausanne and worked at IBM Switzerland before going independent. His specialty is automating the boring parts of Apple device management — the file moves, the signing, the snapshot retention — using a combination of the iMazing CLI, Jamf, Apple Business Manager and ordinary shell scripts. He has spoken at JNUC and the Apple Admin Conference about long-running backup pipelines.
Areas of expertise
Backup automation
Scheduled snapshots, encryption at rest, retention policies.
Apple device MDM
Jamf, Kandji and Apple Business Manager rollouts.
iMazing CLI scripting
Headless backup, conversion and profile signing pipelines.
If you can't script a workflow, you can't trust it at scale — that is the entire reason a serious IT shop standardizes on the iMazing CLI. Lukas Berger, on Apple fleet automation
Career timeline
Apple Mobile Engineer, IBM Switzerland
Built and maintained Apple device deployments for two Swiss universal banks and a major reinsurer.
Independent Apple infrastructure consultant
Served fifteen Swiss financial services clients on Jamf, supervised device enrolment and backup hygiene.
Senior iOS Systems Engineer, iMazing
Writes long-form technical coverage of iMazing CLI workflows, MDM integrations and Apple Business Manager pipelines.
Editorial principles
Every workflow described on this site is tested on a current Apple Silicon Mac and a managed Windows 11 laptop before publication. No affiliate placement is allowed inside the main copy — disclosures appear only at the end of a piece and never influence rankings. Anything that runs locally is preferred over a cloud-only alternative.
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Contact
Lukas reads every email but cannot offer one-to-one support for the iMazing application itself — for that, please use the publisher's official support channel. For corrections, scripting questions or speaking enquiries, reach out via the address listed on the main site.
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