Stephen Band
Co-founder, Front-end Developer at cruncher.ch
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolStephen Band is a front-end developer and co-founder based in Lausanne with 17 years of experience crafting interactive web interfaces and UX-driven sites. He specializes in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery, and has a track record of building reusable UI libraries and plugins—authoring and improving touch and move event libraries and a parallax plugin used by the community. At cruncher.ch he leads front-end delivery, and previously shaped large JavaScript-heavy apps and CSS libraries as lead front-end at webdoc.com and architected sites in Django. His background in acoustics and recording informs a practical attention to media, animation and interaction timing that elevates UX details. An active open-source contributor, he focuses on robust touch interactions and well-documented demos that bridge developer ergonomics with polished presentations.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (HONS), Acoustics and Recording, BSc (HONS), Acoustics and Recording at The University of SalfordFoundation, Architecture, Foundation, Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
event-handling10
jquery10
front-end-development10
touch-event10
documentation9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
graph6
dom6
mongodb6
schema6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stephband/jquery.event.move
Mar 2011 - Jun 2020
Custom events 'movestart', 'move' and 'moveend' for jQuery.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 137 commits, 7 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on developing and improving the functionality of the jQuery.event.move library. Their contributions involved refactoring code to prevent multiple move events being triggered by multiple bindings, and to suppress clicks during a move. They also worked on updating the README documentation and correcting click propagation issues. Their work included updates for improved touch events and handling of delta calculations.
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stephband/jquery.event.swipe
Apr 2012 - Mar 2016
jQuery custom events swipeleft, swiperight, swipeup and swipedown
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the jQuery.event.swipe library. They focused on enhancing the documentation and improving the layout and styling of the associated demo pages, and fixed issues related to the slide demo. The user's work involved updating the CSS, HTML and Javascript for the demo pages, ensuring proper presentation and functionality.
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