Kaspar Vollenweider
Senior Angular Developer at Datavault Builder
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolKaspar Vollenweider is a Senior Angular Developer based in Zurich with 11 years in software engineering and over 9 years specialising in Angular and TypeScript for Swiss healthcare, education and telecom clients. He has led legacy modernisations that yielded 5x performance gains and designs cloud-native frontends and APIs (GraphQL/REST) with production deployments on Google Cloud Run. Equally comfortable full‑stack—Ruby on Rails backends, Postgres and Linux—he contributes to open-source tooling, notably enhancing the fantasticon icon-font generator with stronger TypeScript support and documentation. Kaspar focuses on PWA performance, API-first documentation (OpenAPI) and secure, scalable architectures, and brings hands-on DevOps experience improving CI/CD and cloud migrations. A practical problem-solver with vocational roots, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for making complex systems faster and easier to maintain.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma English Exchange Student Hawke’s Bay New Zealand, High School Diploma English Exchange Student Hawke’s Bay New Zealand at Taradale High SchoolEFZ (Swiss Certificate of Competence) - Federal VET Diploma (equivalent to 100-120 ECTS credits) Computer Software Engineering, EFZ (Swiss Certificate of Competence) - Federal VET Diploma (equivalent to 100-120 ECTS credits) Computer Software Engineering at Zürcher Lehrbetriebsverband ICTHigh School Steinerschool Zug Switzerland, High School Steinerschool Zug Switzerland at Rudolf Steiner-Schule
English, German, French
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
svg9
configuration-management9
api-design8
documentation7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tancredi/fantasticon
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Icon font generation tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 32 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kaspar primarily focused on enhancing the `fantasticon` project, an icon font generation tool. Their contributions involved implementing and refining format options, specifically for TypeScript generation, and modifying existing generators to align with new format options. They also improved the project's code by typing format options more clearly, adjusting file structures, and adding comprehensive documentation related to SVG options. These changes improved the tool's flexibility and user experience.
fontwoff2iconfont-generationwoff
panter/aoz-003
Apr 2017 - Dec 2020
AOZ Voluntary platform (MOVED TO https://git.panter.ch/open-source/aoz-003)
Contributions:351 PRs, 1706 pushes, 335 branches in 3 years 8 months
nodejs
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