Beat Durrer
Software-Architekt at ti&m
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolBeat Durrer is a seasoned Software-Architekt based in Zurich with 14 years of experience designing and delivering full-stack enterprise applications. He combines deep front-end expertise in React and VueJS with robust Java/Spring back-end skills and extensive database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle). At ti&m he progressed from developer to lead engineer and architect, consistently shaping architecture and delivery for complex projects. He contributes to open-source documentation and front-end UX — notably improving Home Assistant’s docs with search, performance optimizations, and version filtering. Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks (GWT, Tapestry, Xamarin, Docker), he brings practicality and a penchant for incremental performance wins. Colleagues rely on him to turn intricate requirements into maintainable, well-architected solutions.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hochschule für Technik Zürich
German, English
Github Skills (10)
html10
uid10
javascript10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
home-assistant9
css9
mustache8
documentation8
jekyll8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/home-assistant.io
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
:blue_book: Home Assistant User documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Beat primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the Home Assistant documentation website. Their work included implementing a component search feature, sorting components alphabetically, and refactoring the component page for improved performance using flexbox, mustache.js, and image loading optimization. They also introduced a filter-by-version feature to enhance the usability of the documentation.
home-assistantjekyllhasshassio
bdurrer/home-assistant
Mar 2017 - Aug 2025
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 16 branches in 8 years 6 months
home-automationpython
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