Andy Pavia
Co-founder at Swissblock Technologies
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Pavia is a Swiss-based co-founder and technology leader with 10 years of experience building product-focused software and startups across fintech and blockchain domains. He combines hands-on front-end and full-stack engineering—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source demos like Electron and Microsoft Edge—with board-level strategic leadership at companies including Swissblock and ACCOINTING.com. His background spans Microsoft program management roles in web and automotive platforms and early research in intelligent vision, giving him a rare mix of product, platform, and applied computer vision experience. Comfortable moving between UI polish (focus/blur UX, styling) and backend integrations (face authentication flows), he’s equally adept at shipping demos that clarify complex web APIs and leading companies through growth and governance. Notably, he has repeatedly founded and scaled ventures while maintaining active technical contributions to community-facing projects.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Industrial and Systems Engineering - Economic and Financial Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Industrial and Systems Engineering - Economic and Financial Systems at Georgia Institute of TechnologyTsinghua UniversityUniversidad del Valle de GuatemalaNational University of Singapore
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (17)
face-detection10
javascript10
electron10
css10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ui-design10
payment-request-api10
front-end-development10
html10
winapi9
user-interface9
wp-api9
interface-design9
ws-api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftEdge/magic-mirror-demo
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
A :zap:Magic Mirror:zap: powered by a UWP Hosted Web App :rocket:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy focused on implementing face authentication features within the Magic Mirror demo, specifically integrating camera access and face detection using JavaScript and potentially Windows APIs. Their work included building the necessary components for user profile creation and managing the user's authentication state based on face detection. The user also made changes to front-end components. This work likely involved interaction with backend APIs for managing user information.
uwp
MicrosoftEdge/Demos-old
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Open source and interoperable demos for Microsoft Edge Dev site
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on developing and improving the user interface for the W3C Payment Request API samples. Their work included adding and styling UI elements, improving the layout, and fixing display issues. They also added resources to the demo, refactored code, and refactored code for better code quality by changing spaces to tabs.
microsoft-edge
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