Silvio Jäger
Senior Backend Engineer at Frontify
St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSilvio Jäger is a Senior Backend Engineer based in St. Gallen, Switzerland with eight years of hands-on experience building web platforms at Frontify, where he progressed from working student to team lead and now senior backend engineer. He combines pragmatic backend architecture and system reliability with a developer-first mindset rooted in his multimedia-electronics apprenticeship and formal BASc in information and communication systems. Comfortable leading small teams, Silvio focuses on delivering maintainable APIs and backend services that scale for product-driven companies. Colleagues would describe him as quietly confident—his GitHub bio tagline "I don't totally suck" hints at practical humility and a willingness to learn. His background in field-level technical support and Swiss military service adds discipline and real-world troubleshooting experience to his engineering toolkit. He excels at turning ambiguous product needs into clear, testable backend solutions while keeping developer experience in mind.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Berufsmaturität, Technische Berufsmaturität at GBS Gewerbliche Berufsschule St. GallenBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme at Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik Buchs NTB Buchs SG
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Github Skills (42)
animation9
gesture9
react9
spring8
blocks8
sdk8
gatsby8
graphql7
frontend6
jsx6
gatsby-plugin6
nodejs6
npm-install6
fastest6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
silviojaeger/cisco_commands
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
cisco_commands
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes in 8 months
golangcisco-commandsautomation
silviojaeger/gatsby-source-recruitee
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Gatsby source plugin to pull recruitee job offers into the gatsby ecosystem.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 months
gatsbyjobsource-pluginecosystemgatsbyjs
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