# David Aerne (@meodai.color.pizza)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/meodai.color.pizza
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.

## Career

- **Founder / Interaction & Design Developer / Frontend Engineer at Elastiq GmbH** (Nov 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** (May 2014 - Dec 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** (Aug 2013 - Apr 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** (May 2012 - Jul 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** (Sep 2010 - Oct 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** (Aug 2008 - Aug 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** (Feb 2007 - Aug 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** (Jul 2006 - Feb 2007)
  Bern
  Giving Gever classes. Administrating and supporting the Gever network.
- **Webdesigner / Print designer / Frontend Engineer at Meodai.ch** (May 2005 - Jul 2006)
  Developing & Designing custom web-applications for small businesses and private clients.
- **Interaction Designer & Programmer at CRAB Créations** (May 2004 - May 2005)
  Designing & Developing: LINGO Programming (Macromedia Director), PHP, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash.

## 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 (Feb 2026) https://return-false.pckt.blog/abandoned-folders-s2bez85

## Skills

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

## Education

- **Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule Bern** — Eidgenössischer Lehrabschluss (1999 - 2003)
  Learn about the basics of IT. Windows / Unix
  \- networking, hardware, system, basic programming, web programming, databases
- **FOS Fribourg** — High School (1995 - 1999)

## Awards

- Best of Swiss Web 2015: Master - Swiss.com (Mar 2015)
- Best of Swiss Web 2015: Gold - swiss.com  category "Mobile Web" (Mar 2015)
- Best of Swiss Web 2014: Silver - Concat
  My role in this project was to build the View part of the application. Every module in the project works on its own and is not dependent on its context. The application is fully responsive and all features are accessible on all resolutions. We came up with a RequreJS, JADE & SCSS build process that made it painless and intuitive to build an application of that scale.

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Elastiq GmbH (Dec 2018 - Present)
  Speaker
  Teaching Creative Programming for Noobs for free.
- F+F Schule für Kunst und Design (Nov 2018 - Present)
  Professional Speaker
  Speaking about contemporary digital visual-design, design systems and procedural design
- WebZürich (Nov 2016 - Present)
  Public Speaker
  Talk: Design systems not values
  \- Create systems that bridge the gap between frontend and design, generative and automated design systems and design language.
- WebZürich (Oct 2016 - Present)
  Public Speaker
  Colors
  \- how to make things prettier by default Takled about color spaces and generative colors
- Eikon (Nov 2013 - Present)
  Public Speaker
  Talk: Les recettes secrètes de la création du web. A talk given to all students at Eikon to explain the techniques used behind the web creations at hingerling & volkart.
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Nov 2019)
  Guest Speaker

## Languages

- French (native)
- German (native)
- English (professional working)

## Links

- X (Twitter): https://x.com/meodai
- GitHub: https://github.com/meodai/
- Website: https://elastiq.ch/