Summary
Julien Knebel is a freelance UI designer and senior front-end developer based in Paris with 13 years of experience crafting polished, user-centered web interfaces and design systems. He combines strong UI/UX sensibilities with hands-on full-stack JavaScript expertise (React, Vue, Angular, Ember, Node) and has led the creation and deployment of large shared component libraries and BPCE’s Neo design system. As a freelancer he has delivered projects for major clients including BPCE, Oui.sncf, AXA and RATP, often improving mobile conversion and enabling company-wide front-end migrations. Julien has a pragmatic DevOps mindset—managing private npm registries, CI pipelines and web-components—and pursues emerging tech like blockchain, ML and chaos engineering in side projects. Known for mentoring teams and bridging design and engineering, he brings both creative craft and production-grade rigor to product teams.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Autodidacte
French, English