Florian Zia
Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Zia is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with nine years of experience building polished front-end experiences, currently advancing product UX at Mozilla. He has a strong interface-design background (BA) and a track record of shipping UI components and theming across high-profile open-source projects like Mozilla Monitor and the Mozilla VPN client. Florian’s work blends practical front-end engineering—HTML/CSS/JS, accessibility, and animation integration—with product-minded thinking, improving account flows, modals, and connection screens. His career spans freelancing and in-house roles across research and fintech-adjacent teams, giving him a pragmatic approach to design-system consistency and incremental UX improvements. Notably, he contributes directly to user-facing features in privacy and security-focused applications, demonstrating an unusual combination of design training and production-grade engineering. He brings both hands-on implementation skills and a sensitivity for user-centric details that move UI work from good to delightful.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Business Informatics, Business Informatics at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor of Arts (BA) Interface Design, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Interface Design at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
css10
user-interface10
web-components10
ui-design10
interface-design10
front-end-development10
html10
qml10
theming9
accessibility9
firefox9
android-developers8
user-experience8
android-developer8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/blurts-server
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Mozilla Monitor arms you with tools to keep your personal information safe. Find out what hackers already know about you and learn how to stay a step ahead of them.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1353 reviews, 85 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Florian focused on enhancing the user interface by implementing a user menu component. This involved writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create a button for triggering the menu and a popover with various account-related links and settings. Furthermore, the user integrated the new component within the main application views, adding it to the header sections, and also updated the CSS variables and JavaScript imports. These changes contribute to improving the user experience.
firefoxmonitorkeepprivacydata-breach
mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A fast, secure and easy to use VPN. Built by the makers of Firefox.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:351 reviews, 358 commits, 257 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on refining and implementing UI components within the Mozilla VPN client repository. Their work involved adjusting the layout, style, and functionality of various UI elements, including modal components, buttons, and connection information screens. The commits show a focus on improving the visual design, accessibility, and overall user experience of the application by applying theming and styling. The user also contributed to the integration of Lottie animations for the user interface.
vpn-clientfirefoxmakerssecureprivacy
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