# David Aerne (@meodai.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/meodai.bsky.social
Headline: Self-employed Interaction Developer / Frontend Engineer at Elastiq GmbH
Location: Zurich, Switzerland

## About

🙏🏿 ⚠️  freelance work only ⚠️ 🙏🏿  As an interaction developer with visual skills, I explore ways to melt code and design, while raising the quality and creative freedom of both. I use my passion and enthusiasm as a tool to promote ideas and skills.

For years I played around in Amiga Painter, Photoshop, and learned how to program on my own and during my IT-education. I was lucky to work in a small company in Fribourg that believed in my skills as a visual designer where I learned that coding and visual-design are things that work well together. Thrilled to discover that I would work on a job that would contain some of my greatest passions: Videogames, Visual Design and Programming, I started to explore the magical world of interaction development.

## Experience

- **Interaction Designer & Programmer at CRAB Créations** (2004 – 2005)
  Designing & Developing: LINGO Programming (Macromedia Director), PHP, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash.
- **Founder / Interaction & Design Developer / Frontend Engineer at Elastiq GmbH** (2016 – present)
  As an interaction developer with visual skills, I explore ways to melt code and design, while raising the quality and creative freedom of both. I use my passion and enthusiasm as a tool to promote ideas and innovating concepts
- **Interaction Developer / Frontend Engineer at Ginetta GmbH** (2014 – 2016)
  Working on automatisation of style-guides, planing and modularisation of large scale projects. Working very closely with designers, teach them the concepts of modularity and integrating them as active members of the dev team by building interfaces to interact with the frontend.
- **Interaction Developer / Frontend Engineer at Nelmio** (2013 – 2014)
  In a team of a total of 3 developers and one designer, I built the view part of custom built MVC web-applications. During that time I worked for clients including UNIC AG, Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, kleio.com, kreiskids.ch. I learned a lot about JavaScript Apps and structuring my work for large projects. I brought in my know-how about HTML, CSS and behavioural javascript as well as the experience in visual modularity.
- **Senior Interaction Developer at Hinderling & Volkart AG** (2012 – 2013)
  I worked on multiple smaller projects as a interaction developer http://www.promotiontools.ch/ , http://www.atupri-guide.ch/ , http://125jahre.bucherer.com/ , http://erben.rhb.ch/ , http://www.mrutschmann.com/ ...
  
  At H&V I learned a lot about code structure, interaction and animation under the lead of Severin Klaus. Before I left I had the front-end lead for the new SWISS website. (http://www.swiss.com) On this project I could bring in my know-how about large scale projects and learned a lot more about it.
- **Frontend Engineer. at Unic AG** (2010 – 2012)
  I was one of the first members of the frontend-team of the business digital communication at unic. Together with with a small team, I helped build and shape the frontend landscape at unic. I had the opportunity to learn a lot about corporate websites, large scale online-shops and small campaign websites as well as collaborating with designers and other developers of all kind. I worked on the frontend code for Hybris, Sharepoint, Typo3, Wordpress, Adobe CQ5 as well as custom built systems.
  
  UI & Javascript Development / Webdesign and Temlating (JS / CSS 2 & 3 / HTML 4 & 5)
- **Frontend Engineer. at Bluesystem** (2008 – 2010)
  I have made the UI's and templates for almost every webapp and website of bluesystem.ch during those two years. We where building custom websites for smaller companies and particulars. I designed and implemented the backend UI for http://www.kameleo.ch/ the company's own CMS solution.
- **Webdesigner / Print designer / Frontend Engineer at meodai.ch** (2007 – 2008)
  During the time I worked on my own, I was working for smaller companies, helping them design and build tools for them selves or there clients. I mainly programmed PHP and designed with Photoshop, Illustrator or using HTML/CSS. My clients included Montreux Jazz Festival, http://www.custom-design.ch/ and www.cafag.ch.
- **Gever Spezialist at Bundesamt für Migration - BFM** (2006 – 2007)
  Giving Gever classes. Administrating and supporting the Gever network.
- **Webdesigner / Print designer / Frontend Engineer at meodai.ch** (2005 – 2006)
  Developing & Designing custom web-applications for small businesses and private clients.

## Education

- **Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule Bern** — Eidgenössischer Lehrabschluss (1999 – 2003)
- **FOS Fribourg** — High School (1995 – 1999)

## Skills

- UNO
- React
- User Experience (UX)
- Front-End Development
- CSS
- Web Development
- User Interface Design
- Information Architecture
- XHTML
- Animation
- Front-end Development
- HTML 5
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- User Experience
- Web Design
- User Interface
- HTML
- Performance
- Photoshop
- Web Applications
- Accessibility
- Programming
- Web Standards
- SASS
- CMS
- Git
- Adobe Fireworks
- Illustrator
- Usability
- jQuery Mobile
- Public Speaking
- vue.js
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Design Programming
- Three.js

## Projects

- **Color distribution of Color-Names in various color models** — https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj
  Plots the entire color-names collection across multiple 3D color models to reveal where the dataset is dense, sparse, or unevenly distributed.
- **Color Names** — https://github.com/meodai/color-names
  A curated dataset of more than 30,000 color names collected and invented over the years.

## Publications

- Abandoned Folders — return-false.pckt.blog (https://return-false.pckt.blog/abandoned-folders-s2bez85)

## Volunteering

- Guest Speaker at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- Professional Speaker at F+F Schule für Kunst und Design
- Public Speaker at WebZürich
- Public Speaker at WebZürich
- Speaker at Elastiq GmbH
- Public Speaker at eikon

## Honors and awards

- Best of Swiss Web 2014: Silver - Concat
- Best of Swiss Web 2015: Master - Swiss.com
- Best of Swiss Web 2015: Gold - swiss.com  category "Mobile Web"

## Languages

- French (native)
- German (native)
- English (professional_working)

## Other profiles

- twitter: https://x.com/meodai
- github: https://github.com/meodai/
- website: https://elastiq.ch/