Stefan Huber · Curriculum Vitae

Updated · April 10, 2024

Personal Details

  • Name Stefan Huber
  • Pronoun he/him (EN) · er/ihm (DE)
  • Mail sh@signalwerk.ch
  • Mobile +41 78 744 37 38
  • Current residence Zurich · Switzerland
  • Year of birth 1981
  • Nationality Swiss
  • Religion Atheist · and laughing about it
  • Marital status Single
  • Cyborg extensions Glasses
  • COVID-19 fully vaccinated and boosted · 4 × BioNTech
  • Social Media GitHub · Instagram

Professional Experience

  • 2019 – now Developer · Liip · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2006 – now Developer · Self Employed · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2017 – 2021 Head of College Higher Education · Interaction Design · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2007 – 2008 Assistant · Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) · Department of Design · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2003 – 2005 Typesetter & Head of Information Technology · Team hp Schneider · Winterthur – Switzerland
  • 2002 Typesetter & Graphic Designer · ropress · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2001 – 2002 Typesetter & Graphic Designer · gdz AG · Zurich – Switzerland

Teaching

  • 2024 Pixelfonts like it’s 1982 · Workshop · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2022 Design Pixelfonts · Workshop · Hackerspace Odenwilusenz · Beringen – Switzerland
  • 2022 Lino printing with and without AI · Workshop · Hackerspace Odenwilusenz · Beringen – Switzerland
  • 2022 Screen printing and AI image generation · Workshop/Talk · SchatzWerk · Wergenstein – Switzerland
  • 2017 – 2023 Web-Technology for Interaction Designers · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2014 – 2015 Web-Technology for Designers · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2008 Technical Training for Designers · University of Applied Sciences and Arts · Lucerne – Switzerland
  • 2007 – 2008 Technical Training for Typesetters · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2005 – 2006 Technical Training for Graphic Designers · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland

Degree

  • 2023 – 2024 CAS Design Cultures · Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) · Department of Design · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2006 – 2008 CAS Type Design · Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) · Department of Design · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2002 – 2004 Typographic Designer · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 1997 – 2001 Polygraf · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland

Open Source

Contributions

  • Code-Contributions in 70+ Projects on GitHub
  • 100+ public Repos on GitHub
  • Wikipedia Germany (official editor)
  • Adobe Translation Center (ATC)

Community

  • Attended over 50 meetups related to technology
  • Organizer of public meetups
  • Attended many contribution days and hackatons
  • Co-Organizer of a national technology-camp in Switzerland (ZeTeCo)

Skill Set

  • BasicProfessionalAdvanced

Programming Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • C & C++
  • Java
  • Shell/Bash Script
  • Used in the past Ruby · XSLT

Frameworks

  • react.js
  • vue.js
  • express.js
  • others processing.org · Paper.js
  • Used in the past jQuery · backbone.js · ember.js

Testing

  • Jest
  • Mocha
  • Jasmine

CSS Processors

  • PostCSS
  • SCSS
  • LESS

Build & package manager

  • npm
  • webpack
  • Used in the past Grunt · gulp · Bower

CI/CD

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Drone CI
  • Travis CI

Database Proficiency

  • Relational database (SQL)
  • Document-oriented database

Good to know

  • GIT/gitflow
  • RegEx
  • Linux/BSD Admin
  • Docker & Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes

Working with Designers

  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Adobe XD
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Illustrator

Bar charts are not a good idea for skills in a CV

  • Yes

Experience

Paradigm & Platform

  • 1998 – now Procedural programming
  • 2000 – now Declarative programming
  • 2005 – now Object-oriented programming (OOP)
  • 2010 – now Hardware programming (Microcontroller)
  • 2017 – now Functional programming

Frameworks & Datafetching

  • 2019 – now vue.js
  • 2016 – now GraphQL
  • 2015 – now react.js
  • 2011 – 2014 ember.js
  • 2010 – now RESTful

Database

  • 2012 – now Document-oriented databases
  • 2006 – 2010 Relational Databases (SQL)

Version Control

  • 2010 – now GIT
  • 2006 – 2010 SVN

Languages

  • German Native
  • English Fluent · CEFR C2
  • French Intermediate · CEFR B1
  • Spanish Basic · CEFR A2

Language Certificates

  • 2008 Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English · CAE
  • 2006 Cambridge First Certificate in English · FCE

Talks

  • 2024 How to preserve curves? · Day of Font · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2019 Liberate books · Libre Graphics Meeting · Saarbrücken – Germany
  • 2019 State of the Font · School of Design (SfGZ) · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2018 Git & GitHub · Meetup · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2018 React.js · Meetup · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2018 ramdajs · Meetup · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2018 paper.js · Meetup · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2018 Travis CI · Meetup · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2018 New Fonts! – New language? · Literature Days · Zofingen – Switzerland
  • 2018 Generative Design shared in an URL · Libre Graphics Meeting · Sevilla – Spain
  • 2017 Abstraction in design – from hand to code · ZeTeCo · Schaffhausen – Switzerland
  • 2014 Responsive design – who adapts to whom? · Meeting Point Publishing · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2011 Caminantes Grafico · Hyperwerk Institute of Postindustrial Design · Basel – Switzerland
  • 2010 New Fonts! Only why? · Day of Font · Zurich – Switzerland

Publications

  • 2023 AI is part of the team at digital agencies · Persoenlich · Switzerland
  • 2020 Flexbox – aligning elements on the web · Publisher 3|2020 · Switzerland
  • 2020 Units of measurement on the web – relative or absolute · Publisher 2|2020 · Switzerland
  • 2020 Colours on the Web – distinguish and interpolate · Publisher 1|2020 · Switzerland
  • 2019 Spaces – Microtypography for the Web · Publisher 5|2019 · Switzerland
  • 2019 Design Systems for the Web · Publisher 4|2019 · Switzerland
  • 2019 Frontend-Frameworks – Websites today · Publisher 3|2019 · Switzerland
  • 2014 Format a lifetime · M0ire 2 · Chicago/Switzerland
  • 2013 How likely is the chance? · M0ire 1 · Chicago|Switzerland
  • 2012 Caminantes Grafico · Print Market · 64|2012 · Switzerland

Volunteer

  • 2018 – now Election worker · elected by city council · Zurich
  • 2013 – 2021 Auditor · FabLab · Zurich
  • 2013 – 2015 Board member · Association for the tradition of the typographic arts · Dresden – Germany
  • 2008 – 2013 Board assistant · Graphics Forum Zurich · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 1999 – 2008 Board member · Youth Commission comedia · Switzerland
  • 2019 – now Member · Digitale Gesellschaft · Switzerland
  • 2013 – now Member · FabLab · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2013 – now Member · Association for the tradition of the typographic arts · Dresden – Germany
  • 2022 – now Member · CH++ · Switzerland

Social service · mandatory in Switzerland

  • 2010 · 2 Month Community worker · socio-therapeutic facility · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2009 · 3 Month Community worker · socio-therapeutic facility · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2008 · 3 Month Driver for disabled and elderly people · TIXI · Zurich – Switzerland
  • 2002 · 4 Month Archivist · Swiss National Museum Zurich, Graphic Collection · Zurich – Switzerland

Internship

  • 2009 · 6 Month Typesetting with movable types · Offizin Haag Drugulin · Leipzig – Germany

Stays abroad

  • 2021 · 2 Month Sabbatical · Various places – USA · Antwerp – Belgium
  • 2017 · 1 Month Sabbatical · Ljubljana – Slovenia
  • 2012 · 4 Month Sabbatical · New York – USA
  • 2011 · 3 Month Sabbatical · Various places – USA
  • 2008 · 3 Month English School · Sydney – Australia
  • 2006 · 3 Month English School · London – UK
  • 2006 · 2 Month Spanish School · Valencia – Spain

Sport

  • 2010 – now 10 – 12 km swimming per week
  • 1990 – 2000 Judo

Other Certificates

  • Driving License Swiss driving licenses · A1, B, D1 (3,5t;106), BE, D1E
  • Publishing PDFX-ready · Creator Certified Expert · 2005

Personal Internet History

Personal AI History

  • 2023 ChatGPT Pro
  • 2022 ChatGPT research preview
  • 2022 DALL·E 2
  • 2021 Technical Preview: GitHub Copilot
  • 2021 Tabnine Pro code completion
  • 2016 deepart.io


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