Welcome to the personal website of Yannik Messerli. I am a creative, passionate and hard-working frontend software engineer with a broad experience. Currently focused on developing a sustainable architecture for complex frontend application visualizing kubernetes networks.
On this digital corner, you will find a glimpse of my professional work, some old personal projects and a lot of random thoughts. None of the opinions expressed on this website are those of my employer.
Articles
Talks
Feb, 2024
Now
Senior Frontend developer
Isovalent, now part of Cisco
Managing, designing and developing new features for Hubble UI - a dashboard to visualizations various metrics of cluster wide networks for Kubernetes.
React · Mobx · Vite · Cypress
Nov, 2022
Jan, 2024
Frontend developer
ArcGIS Urban
Design and develop new features to Esri's urban planning application. Leverage my previous experience to make a large codebase clearer, easier to maintain, and more scalable.
React · Redux · Redux-Saga · webpack · Jest · Playwright
May, 2017
Until Oct, 2022
Frontend developer
ArcGIS Scene Viewer
Designed and developed new features to Esri’s default 3D web viewer, on top of the ArcGIS Map SDK. Occasionally developed spinoff prototypes to showcase new features.
Accessor · maquette · Vite · Playwright
Feb, 2018
Until Feb, 2019
Data analyst
The Tao of Excellence
The Tao of Excellence helps its customers to go through the convoluted medical devices legislation and gives them strategical advices. I was helping them with data and visualizations, mashing it up into digestible infographic.
Python · numpy · Panda · D3.js
Aug, 2013
Until Feb, 2017
Technology analyst
Cisco Strategic Organisation
At the Chief Strategy Office at Cisco, we explored new growth opportunities by creating Proof of Concepts and programs to accelerate technology trends such as Blockchain technologies and Docker Containers. My job were split between trying new technologies and advocating for them.
Feb, 2007
Until Aug, 2013
Freelance
Carried out more than 20 customer projects between 2007 until 2012 to sustain my studies. Most of the projects were web-based, from wine shops to luxurious hotel. Design were made from scratch specifically for my customers while the websites were delivered powered by various CMS and frameworks.
Education
On the shores of Lake Geneva, I have graduated from the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne ( EPFL ). Interesting internship positions have notably brought me in other universities, like the Technion in Israël. During my studies, I was a teaching assistant for the courses of "Graph Theory", "Signal Processing for communication" and "Computer Network".
It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith
About me
Proud father of a daughter born in 2022. If I don't have a rugby game during the weekend, I am probably rock climbing, or running. Because I am hyperactive, sport is essential for me to be able to work efficiently. Oh, by the way, sometimes I paint during work meeting to busy my hands to focus too. Here is some random pictures I took.
What about the blacksmith theme? When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a blacksmith. In my backyard, alone, I was hitting piece of bright yellow-orange wrought iron to create beautiful shapes. Today, behind my screen, I am hitting the keys of my computer to bend line of codes to create beautiful interfaces. I became a websmith.