Frontend change that sticks, because your teams own it.

Freelance · since 20157 engagements

1. Jan 2025 – present22 months

   Expert Web Engineer CSS (opens in a new tab)

   Insurance · via Zühlke

   Kept the myCSS digital client portal moving: maintained the app across web, Android and iOS, kept the shared Angular foundation current, and coached, reviewed and paired with every team on it.

   • Delivery and maintenance: Maintained the app on web, Android and iOS; sped up builds with Nx and Nx Cloud, ran visual tests only for what changed, fixed the iOS build and the mobile CI/CD.
   • Platform and quality: Took new cloud services through security and procurement; fixed Android and browser rendering bugs at the root.
   • People and practice: Assessed teams and their needs, reviewed across teams, advised the people leads, and introduced the teams to working effectively with AI through Copilot CLI.

   • Angular
   • TypeScript
   • RxJS
   • Signals
   • Nx
   • Nx Cloud
   • Capacitor
   • Copilot CLI

2. Dec 2023 – Dec 202413 months

   Expert Web Engineer LGT (opens in a new tab)

   Banking · via Zühlke

   Was responsible for the one Angular architecture of LGT's online banking and held it across every frontend team through reviews, pairing and training.

   • Architecture: Was responsible for the frontend and Angular architecture; set and defended the standards across teams.
   • Engineering process: Drove PR reviews, pipelines, unit and end-to-end testing with the teams; cleared blockers for every frontend team.
   • People: Coached developers and ran training sessions; advised the people leads on where teams and developers stood and what they needed.

   • Angular
   • TypeScript
   • RxJS
   • Nx

3. Mar 2023 – Oct 20238 months

   Senior Frontend Engineer Visana (opens in a new tab)

   Insurance · via Adesso

   Assessed Visana's in-house Angular framework end to end and made it lighter, faster and easier to work with.

   • Framework: Cut payload size, improved reliability, refactored code for performance and readability and brought it in line with current practice.
   • Teams: Improved developer experience and set up knowledge transfer between teams.
   • People: Advised the people leads on where teams and developers stood and what they needed.

   • Angular
   • TypeScript
   • RxJS

4. Jan 2021 – Feb 202214 months

   Senior Software Engineer LUKSO (opens in a new tab)

   Blockchain · Berlin · direct

   Built a Kubernetes cluster from scratch and ran it with GitOps for LUKSO's network services, from block explorers and monitoring sites to IPFS.

   • Infrastructure: Set up the cluster, GitOps workflow and CI/CD on GitHub Actions from scratch.
   • Libraries: Set up two TypeScript libraries for developers in the LUKSO ecosystem end to end, from build to publishing on npm.
   • Apps and websites: Built a Go and Angular app to manage the network binaries; shipped new site designs and features, tested end to end.

   • Angular
   • TypeScript
   • Go
   • GitHub Actions
   • Kubernetes

5. Dec 2018 – Dec 20202 years

   Senior Frontend Engineer Die Mobiliar (opens in a new tab)

   Insurance · direct

   Helped move a large AngularJS codebase to Angular, as one of the frontend engineers in a programme of more than 200 developers.

   • Migration: Moved AngularJS code to Angular, RxJS at the core, with RxJS rewrites along the way.
   • Quality: Introduced Jest, Cypress and Storybook, and ran the test suites.
   • Infrastructure: Wrote a Chef playbook for an Ubuntu VM and a proxy for specific requests.

   • Angular
   • RxJS
   • Jest
   • Cypress
   • Storybook
   • Chef

6. Aug 2016 – Feb 201819 months

   Frontend Engineer Die Mobiliar (opens in a new tab)

   Insurance · direct

   Helped move SPAs and libraries from AngularJS to Angular as new features kept shipping.

   • Migration: Worked on moving SPAs and libraries to Angular; cut build times.
   • Features: Built new features and single-page apps in the existing AngularJS setup, with unit and end-to-end tests.

   • AngularJS
   • Angular
   • TypeScript

7. Jun 2015 – Jul 201614 months

   Frontend Engineer Localsearch (Swisscom Directories) (opens in a new tab)

   Telecom · direct

   Did web work for local.ch, one of Switzerland's largest directories.

   • Sites: Built and launched several local.ch sites.
   • Blog: Moved the blog to Locomotive CMS, prepared for future upgrades.

   • Ruby on Rails
   • Locomotive CMS
   • AngularJS