Josep Fernández
Software Engineer at Adobe
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJosep Fernández is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building front-end focused web applications and components, currently at Adobe in Zurich. He has led frontend efforts at companies like crowdhouse.ch and Confrere and contributed substantial improvements to the popular open-source Choices.js library—adding features, accessibility fixes, and extensive test coverage. Comfortable across the stack, Josep combines practical UX-minded engineering with a strong emphasis on code quality and refactoring. His background includes academic work at ETH Zurich and technical roots from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, reflecting a balance of rigorous CS training and hands-on delivery.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's thesis, Computer Science, Bachelor's thesis, Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (13)
testing10
html-document10
html10
selectbox10
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
front-end-development10
select-input10
jestjs10
dom10
html-manipulation10
jtest10
jes10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Choices-js/Choices
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
A vanilla JS customisable select box/text input plugin ⚡️
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Josep primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `choices-js/choices` library, a vanilla JS customisable select box plugin. Their work focused on adding new features such as custom properties for items and choices, and improving the overall functionality. The commits include adding extensive unit tests and integration-like tests to validate the new features, as well as fixing accessibility issues and refactoring the code for better clarity.
text-inputboxjavascriptdropdown-menustext-box
JayKid/Abraham-Shellincoln
Mar 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 4 months
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