Summary
Simon Pinkas is a multidisciplinary designer-developer and Maître d’enseignement based in Ecublens, Switzerland, with nine years of experience blending interactive design, multimedia production, and web and mobile development. Trained at UCLA (Design Media Arts) and Geneva’s HEAR (Media Design MA), he builds cross-disciplinary projects ranging from UI and cartography to art installations and teaching curricula. He has taught web technologies and interaction design at Eracom and HEIG‑VD while contributing as a developer to practical systems like Petzi Ticketing, demonstrating an ability to move between research-led media art and production engineering. Comfortable with a plurality of technologies and media, he brings a strong visual sensibility to technical problems and a habit of prototyping ambitious multimedia interactions that live both in the gallery and the browser.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Media Design, Master of Arts - MA, Media Design at Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design — Genève
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Design Media Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Design Media Arts at University of California, Los Angeles
English, French