The road so far

the-road-so-far.txt

Valentin Vago
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Grew up in      : Montreux, Switzerland


Languages       : French (native language)
                  English, spoken, written
                  German, spoken, written


Contact         : v.vago@irata.ch
                  @zeropaper



Studies
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1997 - 2000     : Technical drawer in architecture
                    Started working with 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, Photoshop

2000 - 2005     : Studying multimedia conception at EMAF
                    (école de multimedia et d'art de Fribourg, now eikon) Switzerland
                    Communication theories, Art history, Graphic & Web design,
                    Color theories, Typography
                  Started VJing and wrote my first VJing software
                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJing

2005            : Traineeship at Mediagonal (now Liip), Fribourg, Switzerland
                    Worked on Dockbook XML implementation in Bitflux WYSIWYG editor
                    Gained good skills working with Javascript, XSL, CSS, PHP
                    Started working on Linux

2005            : Moved to Berlin

2005 - 2006     : (re-)learn German

2006 - 2013     : Freelance web-developer

2013 - 2014     : Frontend developer at myDriver.com

2014 - 2017     : Core UI developer at Camunda services GmbH

2017            : Lecturer at devugees.org

2018            : Senior frontend developer at Aperto



Skills          : Frontend:
------              SCSS / SASS / Less (CSS), React / Angular / Backbone (JS), HTML, Grunt.js, Webpack 2, Neutrino
                  Backend:
                    Bash, Apache2, PHP, MySQL
                  Team work:
                    GIT, SVN, Kanban, Scrum
                  CMS:
                    Drupal, Wordpress
                  OSes (in order of preference):
                    Linux, OSX, Windows
                  Misc / interests:
                    - Digital sustainability
                    - Semantical web (micro data)
                    - Personal development
                    - Concept development
                    - Visual arts
                    - Creative coding




Some works      : SMS surveying tool for researches on alcohol and drugs use
----------          Based on Drupal CMS and Clickatell API
                  RESET.to
                    Donation platform based on Drupal CMS
                    - http://reset.to 
                  Nitro USA Snowboard
                    Websites for seasons 2010-2011, 2011-2012, multiple languages,
                    sub-sites and country specific subdomains
                    - http://nitrousa.com
                  Raiden Bindings
                    Websites for seasons 2010-2011, 2011-2012
                    - http://raidenbindings.com
                  L1 Outerwear
                    Websites for seasons 2010-2011, 2011-2012
                    - http://l1outerwear.com
                  Camunda commons UI
                    Angular widgets and CSS framework based on Bootstrap
                    - https://camunda.github.io/camunda-commons-ui/
                  Camunda blog an documentation
                    Website based on gohugo.io and camunda-commons-ui
                    - https://blog.camunda.org
                    - https://docs.camunda.org




Pet projects    : Visual Fiha
-------------       Open-source, zero install, MIDI enabled, browser based VJing software
                    - https://visual-fiha.gitlab.io/ (it is in a early stage though)
                    - https://www.facebook.com/visualfiha/


Experimenting   : React.js, Gatsby.js, React Native
-------------     Three.js, A-Frame
                  Progressive Web App