Mauro Bieg

Fision Technologies is a startup with at that time around 20 employees. The product is a mobile app and accompanying back-end. End-users use the app to take photos of their body, from which a 3D-model is constructed, which is used to give size-recommendations for clothes when online-shopping on one of our customers' online stores. I was part of the seven-people platform-team, that was tasked with continuously delivering the software into production. I was working on both the front-end (React, TypeScript, GraphQL) and the back-end services. The latter were implemented using Python (Falcon and SQLAlchemy), exposed as REST APIs and ran on Google's Kubernetes Engine.

My co-founder (a graphic designer) and I won an Impact Hub Zürich Fellowship with the idea of 2324.ch – a participatory hyper-local online news-platform. We quickly on-boarded a marketing/sales guy and soon acquired four paying municipalities. Unfortunately, that was not enough to sustain our growth vision, so we decided to hand-over the project and our customers to Crossiety, a startup sharing our vision of an online village square. In addition to forming our team and product strategy, I implemented both front- and back-end of the online platform. My decision to go with a simple and proven stack (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and some React) served us well, and allowed us to quickly iterate on the product.

In my part-time work, I supported Artem Chirkin, then a PhD student, in continuing the development of qua-kit, a web-based platform that assists urban designers in their design process. I worked on both the front- and back-end, which were implemented using Reflex (a functional reactive programming framework on GHCJS) and Yesod respectively.