Profile Stephan Zavodny

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About me

My Name is Stephan Zavodny. I’m a Frontend-Enthusiast, Frontend-Thinker and currently employed as a Senior Frontend Developer at finstreet in Münster. For more than 25 years I’ve been following my passion for digital technologies. During this time I’ve implemented web-based applications of various complexity in small and large teams. Due to my background as a communication designer I pay special attention to topics such as accessibility, usability and user experience (UX).

In my free time I handle two Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers with whom I travel all over Europe, which I documented on my blog for a long time and play electronic music as a DJ or stream video games on Twitch.

Contact

Address: Stephan Zavodny
Brechtestr. 98
48431 Rheine
Germany
Phone: +49 177 39 220 34
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Career

  • since Senior Frontend Developer finstreet
  • Freelance Frontend Developer rastersysteme.de
  • Senior Frontend Engineer Zweitag GmbH
  • Director Frontend / Senior Web Developer Aperto – An IBM Company
  • Teamlead Frontend / Senior Web Developer Aperto – An IBM Company
  • Senior Frontend Developer Exozet Berlin GmbH
  • Communication Designer / Web Developer
    self-employed and freelance
    rastersysteme.de
  • Bachelor of Arts Studying at AKD – Akademie für Kommunikationsdesign Düsseldorf
  • Retail Merchant Education at Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK), graduation with distinction

Projects

  • Consultant for Frontend Architectur, Accessibility, Usability and UX for large companies
  • Big data visualizing intranet-applications for preventive measures
  • Donation processes for several NGOs to optimize the conversion
  • Credit und financing processes for several banks
  • Building accessible Frontends e.g. for the german government
  • B2B und B2C websites for large companies with seven digits annual budgets
  • Responsible for Frontends of several Apple and Android Apps on a React Native base

Clients (Excerpt of the past ten years)

  • Airbus
  • Asklepios
  • ATV
  • Bank of Scotland
  • BBC
  • Commerz Finanz
  • Deutsche Aidshilfe
  • Deutsche Bahn
  • Die Bundesregierung
  • Die Johanniter
  • Design meets Home
  • EWE Tel
  • Europäisches Parlament
  • FarmSaat
  • Lloyds Bank
  • LVM
  • Lytt
  • Migros
  • ORF
  • Pfreundt
  • Red Bull
  • School Scout
  • Senger
  • Sentres
  • SOS Kinderdorf
  • SPD Bundestagsfraktion
  • Tirol
  • Unicef
  • ver.di
  • Veritrust
  • VR Bank
  • WWF
  • Zukunftsfonds

Qualifications

Frontend-Expertise

  • Excellent HTML, HAML, CSS, Sass & SVG knowledge
  • Consistent implenentation of WAI-compliant websites (WCAG 2.1 and BITV 2.0) by using Webstandards (W3C)
  • Building Frontend Coding Strategies with a focus on maintainability, resilience and flexibility
  • Defining and establishing quality standards and coding guidelines
  • Responsive Webdesign strategist for output optimization on smartphones, tablets und desktop computers
  • Excellent Crossbrowser- and Crossdevice-Development with an extesive Browserbug-Knowhow incl. Peformance-Optimization
  • Leadership und coordiantion of large Frontend-Teams as a Lead Developer
  • Defining and optimizing Frontend-Processes and Frontend-Workflows
  • Maintain, extend und refactor existing Frontends
  • Specialist for forms

Development Process

  • Agile Software-Development with Scrum or Kanban
  • Daily version management with Git on platforms like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket
  • Trained handling with project management web applications like Jira, Targetprocess or Redmine
  • Quality assurance, Code Reviews
  • Creating project-audits

Furthermore

  • Expertise and practical knowledge in the fields of Usability, User Experience and Semantic Web
  • Knowledge transfer, technical coaching and mentoring
  • Working out alternative solutions concerning the economic efficiency
  • Cost calculations for new and existing projects
  • Photoshop, Illustrator, figma and Sketch expert know-how
  • Language skills: german (mother tongue), english