Jan Paepke
CEO & Founder at Kwizkid
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarJan Paepke is a Vienna-based software engineer and serial founder with 13 years of experience building web-first products and studios. As CEO & Founder of rubberduck studio and founder of Kwizkid, he blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship with product leadership to ship engaging interactive experiences. His open-source contributions include enhancements to the notable superscrollorama jQuery plugin, reflecting deep expertise in scroll-based animations and mobile-friendly UI behavior. Jan is comfortable bridging prototype-to-production cycles, improving documentation and edge-case logic while leading small teams. He pairs entrepreneurial drive with a pragmatic engineering mindset, often focusing on polish and UX details that distinguish consumer-facing projects.
13 years of coding experience
German, English, French, ungarisch
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
animation10
travis-ci9
css8
yeoman6
html6
digitalocean-spaces6
gsap6
angularjs6
scrollmagic6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
johnpolacek/superscrollorama
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
The original jQuery plugin for supercool scroll animation. NOTE: No longer under active development. New version is ScrollMagic.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 5 comments, 5 issues in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the jQuery plugin `superscrollorama`, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to scroll-based animations. Their work involved adding new features like the "playoutAnimations" option and "scrollContainerOffset" for mobile implementations. They also made adjustments to the animation logic and documentation, particularly improving the handling of pinned elements and the animation reverse parameters.
animationscrollerscrolljqueryscrolling
janpaepke/reversible-effect
May 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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