Raphael Voellmy
Software Engineer, Swiss, based in Zurich, born 1989
Passionate full-stack developer with extensive experience in front- and backend development in startups and large enterprises, mostly in the financial industry. Enthusiastic about learning new technologies and building scalable, high-quality, functional software.
Work Experience
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB)
Feb 2023 - nowFull-Stack Software Engineer
- Development of an application that facilitates issuing structured products and manages their life-cycle using Kotlin and Java with Spring Boot
- Development of an internal UI for managing structured products using Angular
- Scrum master of a team of 7 developers
NBK Labs AG
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023Lead Frontend Dev (Contract)
- Define frontend architecture and implement branding and design
- Develop a web3 responsive frontend and hybrid app using React (TypeScript), Next and Recoil
- Setting up a component library with styled-components, styled-system and Storybook
- Conduct technical interviews for applying software engineers
Angle Technologies AG
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022Head of Frontend Development
- Development of a web client for Angle in React using NextJS, styled-components, Recoil.js
- Development of a dashboard for Angle's customers in React using NextJS, styled-components, Recoil.js
- Design and development of a web SDK to integrate Angle in third-party applications
- Implementing new features in the serverless (AWS lambda) backend with NodeJS (TypeScript)
- Set up a CI/CD pipeline to publish public libraries to NPM and deploy to production on a daily basis
- Support hiring process and lead team of frontend developers, internal and external
Finnova AG
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020Full-Stack Engineer (Contract)
- Development of a dashboard for professional portfolio managers in Angular
- Development of a shared Angular component library used by multiple projects of the company
- Support DevOps with automating release and deployment of the dashboard to Finnova's private OpenShift cluster
- Implement REST endpoints of a Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) written in Java with Spring Boot
- Setting up a Finnova internal frontend community to streamline the frontend development and share knowledge
AXA
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019React Expert (Contract)
- Development of a React application to search and view files of the AXA document management system
- Implementation of unit- and end-to-end tests
- Design and implementation of a build pipeline and automated deployment of the React application based on OpenShift
ti&m AG
Apr 2016 - Jul 2019Senior Software Engineer
- Development of various web applications in React, Angular and AngularJS, primarily for companies in the financial sector
- Implementation of UI designs and design systems
- Development and maintenance of a WebRTC based video chat infrastructure and video clients
- DevOps: Design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines
- Requirements engineering and reviews at customers
- Implementation of various prototypes for a leading Swiss food wholesaler
- Mentoring of junior software engineers
BandwidthX
Sep 2013 - Apr 2016Independent Software Developer
- Development of a simulation of a Wi-Fi bandwidth market in large cities, written in Java
- Development of a responsive, interactive web interface for the market simulation using websockets, Twitter Bootstrap and JQuery
- Development of a Wi-Fi bandwidth data analytics and visualization tool in Python
- Development of an interactive web tool for prospective clients in Node.JS and AngularJS
- Setup of CI environment (JIRA, Bamboo, Docker)
ECUREX
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015Frontend Developer
- Design and development of a responsive digital currencies trading desk in AngularJS
- Development of Python module to collect, aggregate and publish historic and real-time financial data
- Setup of KeystoneJS CMS
- System administration
Exchange Traded Bitcoins
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013Software Developer
- Development of an automated arbitrage trading engine in Java
- Development of responsive, interactive web interface for the trading engine
AMC Account Management Center
Aug 2011 - Mar 2013Research Analyst
- Creating HTML content for website and marketing emails
- System administration
- Development of customer survey data aggregation and visualization tool in Java
UBS AG
Jan 2010 - Aug 2010Sales Management Support Specialist
- Creation of sales reports in MS Excel
- Data processing with MS Access
- Training of new employees in querying, processing and visualization of sales data
- Organization of monthly sounding board
Education
University Zurich
BSc in Software Systems, Magna Cum Laude
Bachelor Thesis “CoinBlesk 2.0, a Mobile NFC Bitcoin Payment System” (received highest rating of 6.0)
ETH Zurich
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Realgymnasium Rämibühl, Zurich
Matriculation
Elementary School Fluntern, Zurich
Skills
JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, React, Angular, Elm, Java, Kotlin
HTML, CSS, Sass, Less, styled-components, Tailwind CSS
Linux, Docker, BASH, Ansible
GIT, GitLab, GitHub
Kubernetes, Helm
Webpack, Gulp, Grunt
REST, GraphQL
Python, Pandas
SQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Firebase Realtime Database, Firestore
AWS, GCP, Serverless Framework
C++, Haskell, Ruby, Elixir