Jan Mühlemann
Founder Locize.com at inweso GmbH
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Mühlemann is a Swiss founder and seasoned software architect with 14 years of experience building scalable web systems and developer-focused tooling. As founder of locize.com he bridges the gap between translation and development, drawing on deep hands-on expertise across front-end and back-end stacks including React, Node.js, CQRS and Event Sourcing. He has driven modernization efforts at enterprise teams (dormakaba/Kaba) and led architecture for large-scale products, blending interaction design sensibilities from an MAS in HCID with practical distributed systems design. An active open-source contributor, Jan has helped shape the i18next ecosystem—contributing language detection, React integrations and documentation styling—underscoring his focus on internationalization and developer experience. Notably, he pairs product-level thinking with low-level implementations, from in-memory event stores to UI interpolation components.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MAS HCID, Interaction Design, MAS HCID, Interaction Design at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
German, English
Github Skills (23)
eventstore10
javascript10
rails-i18n10
translation10
component-development10
css10
internationalization10
event-sourcing10
localization10
ember-i18n10
front-end-development10
i18n-js10
i18next10
nodejs10
cookie10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
i18next/i18next-gitbook
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:540 commits, 127 PRs, 408 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the styling and visual presentation of the i18next-gitbook project. Their work focused on modifying the `styles/website.css` file, adjusting colors, font styles, and the layout of headers and links. Additionally, the user made modifications to `_layouts/website/summary.html` to incorporate a logo and enhance the overall user interface. They also addressed a bug related to URL hashes using custom JavaScript in `assets/js/custom.js`.
i18next/i18next
Dec 2011 - Aug 2022
i18next: learn once - translate everywhere
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 1321 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of the i18next project, as indicated by the commits. Their work involved modifying the source code and test files to improve the handling of different languages and locales, including adjustments to the pluralization rules for various languages. They also implemented features to support new locales and enhanced the functionality of the translation process.
flexibilitytranslationjavascripti18nextinternationalization
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