Katja Süss
Full Stack Developer, Project Manager at Rohberg
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolKatja Süss is a Full Stack Developer and Project Manager based in Zürich with 13 years of experience building web and mobile applications. Trained as a mathematician, she combines analytical rigor with practical engineering, leading product delivery at Rohberg while hands‑on coding both front- and back-end. Her open-source contributions to the Plone ecosystem and privacy-focused Shariff show a strong UI/UX sensibility—implementing i18n, responsive headers, improved search, and nuanced sharing behavior for Twitter. She frequently balances maintenance and modernization work, removing legacy code and improving maintainability in core CMS components. Colleagues know her for thoughtful refactors and attention to navigational UX details such as breadcrumbs and search highlighting. Comfortable switching between strategic project leadership and implementation, she brings a rare mix of mathematical precision and frontend craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom, Mathematik, Diplom, Mathematik at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im BreisgauVor-Diplom, Mathematik, Vor-Diplom, Mathematik at Universität Basel
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
plone10
rails-i18n10
python10
css10
volta10
ember-i18n10
html10
i18n-js10
frontend10
react10
documentation10
zope9
python-requests9
urllib9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plone/documentation
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Plone Documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 210 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Katja primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Plone Documentation. Their contributions involved theming and styling search results and forms, implementing breadcrumbs for improved navigation, and making improvements to the search functionality, including replacing dropdown menus with radio buttons and adding a reset button. The user also addressed layout issues and fixed highlighting of search query strings.
mystplonesphinxvolto
plone/volto
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
React-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:163 reviews, 123 commits, 133 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Katja primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Plone Volto project. Their work included implementing internationalization (i18n) across various components, such as the toolbar and folder contents view, and updating translations for the user interface. They also addressed responsive design by modifying the header to be responsive to different screen sizes. Furthermore, the user worked on the VocabularyTermsWidget, updating components to be used for the plone.schema dict field.
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