Hello
My name is Valentin.
I was born in the French speaking part of Switzerland in the early
80's but I lived in Berlin nearly half my life.
I speak fluently French, English and German.
Professionally, I consider myself a digital craftsman and
personally, a creative coder.
I am currently exploring the potential paths my career could take
and updating my skills.
If you believe I can add value to your product and your
company, please get in touch on LinkedIn.
Technical drawer
Architecture has been my first professional orientation and, in its essence, is still very influential.
Planning, describing and elaborating complex concepts while adding some form of elegance to it.
I learn technical drawing with pen and paper but got into 3D and coding with OpenGL in the early versions of design assisted softwares like ArchiCAD.
Multimedia Designer
I began creating with softwares like 3D Studio Max and Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash and the likes. Although I was still studying, it's around that time that I wrote my first invoices and started working on my first website and took the 'zeropaper' alias.
Trainee Web Developer
My Multimedia Design studies ended with as the first trainee of a company called Mediagonal (now liip). It's really during that time that I discovered Linux and used since then. I had the chance to learn from pioneers in their fields and I got my to face my first JavaScript challenge.
Web Developer
Moved to Berlin and worked for several years as a freelance web developer. Mostly with PHP at first, focusing on Drupal after a while. Mundraub.org, reset.org and Nitro Snowboards are among my favorite projects of that time. Although the period started on the back-end side, I gradually moved to the front-end side and started working with Sass (Compass), 96 grids and of course jQuery. And that I switched from SVN to GIT.
Software Developer
@ MyDriver
I got convinced to take a position at a VTC start-up funded by Sixt but the experience cut short as they moved the whole development to an other location (and remote work wasn't a thing back in the days). However, it's during that time that I started using front-end frameworks like Backbone.js. It's about that time that I first used a JavaScript bundler like Grunt.js and wrote my first plugins for it.
Core Developer
@ Camunda
Designing, developing and maintaining the UI of the Camunda BPM platform web-apps, documentation and blog. The major part of my work was published under an open-source license.
Visual Fiha
Created an application for creative coders to generate visuals that can react to sound and can be controlled by MIDI devices. The application was published under open-source license and run without installation in the browser.
Lecturer
@ Devugees - DCI
Teaching front‐end development fundamentals, writing exercises and establishing the curriculum for the students.
Senior Front-end Developer
@ MWD
Created a React Native application for the Berlin ice hockey team.
Senior Front-end Developer
@ jobpal
In charge of the B2B dashboard (based on ReactJS) development and maintenance.
Senior Front-end Developer
@ SmartRecruiters
My role at SmartRecruiters was to ease the integration of the software I created during my time at jobpal.
Senior Front-end Developer
@ GoStudent
During my time at GoStudent, I took over the improvement of the front-end repositories and the harmonization of their tools and code styling as well as drafting the technical specifications for the development of new features.