Consulting from Basel, Switzerland
Specialist consulting in data integration, governance and lifecycle management across regulatory technology and healthcare — where correctness is not optional.
01 — The practice
Arfa Digital Consulting promotes digital transformation through IT and AI solutions, software development, data analysis and strategic consulting — tuned for Swiss and European regulatory contexts.
Behind it is Benjamin Arfa: engineer, Technical Manager at HL7 Switzerland, and co-founder of BIRDBench Ltd. Nine years across ECB and Swiss FSO metadata modelling, FHIR data modelling for Swiss healthcare, BIRD open-source tooling, and Life Sciences manufacturing data.
Shared infrastructure instead of licensed silos. Transparent rules instead of black boxes.
On building regulatory tooling in the open
02 — Services
Pillar 01
Scalable data applications and system integration. From requirements engineering through to deployment.
Pillar 02
Technical Manager at HL7 Switzerland (FHIR-CH), driving healthcare data standardisation. Semantic integration and master data management.
Pillar 03
Metadata management and data architecture design. Robust, business-aligned systems with effective governance.
03 — Selected work
01
Co-founder · GovTech
Swiss federal consultation report generator
Automates the creation of Swiss federal Ergebnisbericht reports from structured Excel data. Vendor-agnostic LLM optimisation tuned on authentic federal consultation data — no provider lock-in.
02
Co-founder · RegTech
A workbench of interoperable tools, extendable by AI coding assistants
BIRD Software Solutions provides BIRDBench, a tools workbench that brings together open and commercial interoperable extensions to the FreeBIRD application.
Because the FreeBIRD application is built on the ubiquitous, AI-friendly Django framework, developing your own custom extensions can be accelerated with AI coding assistants.
You can develop a tool that solves just the precise problem you want to solve and add it to the workbench, where it interoperates with other tools solving orthogonal problems.
01
Maintainer · GovTech
Swiss federal and cantonal law as a queryable dataset
A dashboard over Swiss federal and cantonal legislation, plus a static read-only JSON, CSV and SDMX API served straight from GitHub Pages. Legal domains are harmonised across the Confederation and all 26 cantons, so federal and cantonal acts can be compared on the same axis.
Statute published as data rather than as PDFs means downstream systems can be tested against it, and Atom and RSS feeds make a change to the law something software can subscribe to.
02
Contributor · RegTech
Tooling to democratise BIRD as an open standard
An open-source toolkit for the Banks' Integrated Reporting Dictionary — the standard defining the reporting rules and templates European banks use to supply data to supervisory bodies.
03
Contributor · Open Legal Lab 2026
Swiss law turned into rules a computer can execute
Built at Open Legal Lab 2026, the Swiss legal-tech hackathon in Magglingen. Articles of Swiss tax and social-insurance law are pulled from Fedlex and turned into executable rules, so a question about contributions or entitlement can be answered by running the law itself instead of re-implementing it by hand in every administrative system.
04 — Involvement
Technical Manager
Driving healthcare data standardisation for FHIR-CH — implementation guidance, interoperability working groups and Swiss healthcare data exchange standards.
Head of Development
Leading software development and technical strategy for regulatory technology — open-source data infrastructure aligned with the BIRD standard.
Co-Founder
Advancing open, benchmark-driven approaches to regulatory technology alongside the BIRD open-standard ecosystem.
Contributor
Open-source contributor via Eclipse EFBT — regulatory-reporting tooling built in the open, under vendor-neutral governance.
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