Alain Horner
Senior Web Engineer at horner digital gmbh
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlain Horner is a Senior Web Engineer based in Zurich with 14–15 years of experience designing and shipping accessible, maintainable web applications across startups, enterprises and public institutions. He specializes in JavaScript (Node, Vue, React) and CSS, and has led frontend efforts for large Swiss clients like ETH Zürich and Swiss Federal Railways where he balanced accessibility, UX and complex data workflows. Equally comfortable architecting MVPs and contributing to open-source components (notably enhancing a popular Vue datepicker and improving SonataAdmin front-end), he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and technical writing. Working largely remote since 2014, Alain excels at asynchronous collaboration, pragmatic decision‑making and fostering cross-team alignment between design, product and engineering.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Apprenticeship, Mediamatics technician, 6.0, Apprenticeship, Mediamatics technician, 6.0 at BBZ BielBachelor of Applied Science (B.Sc.), Computer- und Informationswissenschaften, allgemein, 5.7, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.Sc.), Computer- und Informationswissenschaften, allgemein, 5.7 at ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
datepicker10
html10
javascript10
twig10
front-end-development10
admin10
vue10
vue-jsx10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
unit-testing8
css8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sonata-project/SonataAdminBundle
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
The missing Symfony Admin Generator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alain primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Sonata Admin Bundle. Their work involved modifying the `standard_layout.html.twig` file, including adding, renaming and removing blocks, and refactoring the code related to JavaScript configurations and localization. These changes targeted the configuration and behavior of the user interface. Furthermore, the user also addressed the positioning of content within the admin interface.
admin-generatorsymfonybundlephpadmin
charliekassel/vuejs-datepicker
May 2018 - Jun 2018
A simple Vue.js datepicker component. Supports disabling of dates, inline mode, translations
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Alain primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Vue.js datepicker component. Their work included implementing features like overriding the day cell content and handling month change events. The user also made improvements to the component's functionality, as evidenced by merging branches, introducing default function shortcuts, and adding unit tests. These changes enhanced the component's flexibility and user experience.
datepickervuevuejsdate-picker
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