Hi I’m

Thibault
Jan Beyer

an ambitious full-stack developer from Belgium. Currently living, learning, working and playing in Berlin, Germany.

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The eagerness to learn and to produce great user experience is the principle that guides my work

education

at Cologne Design Academy (KDA), Germany
extended diploma in communication design (3 years), with honors
final thesis: accessible web – open up websites for the physically impaired (won 2 awards + 1 special merit letter)

3 month summer school at Friends of Design
digital publishing course: iPad app, animated PDF, packaging redesign & branding for a pop-band

at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
kick started my writing and storytelling skills. I also learned ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek and Latin. The roots of modern language
gathered deep knowledge in philosophical thinking and theories as well as people, human history and behaviors of different cultures
I didn’t finish this B.A. and changed to the field of communication design, simply because I realized that theology and philosophy wasn’t what I wanted to do for a living

6 month internship/training at ndF Filmgesellschaft in Ellmau, Austria. Popular German TV show: der Bergdoktor ZDF
learned to quickly get my bearings and settle into new environments, how to design a stage and how to tell compelling stories
gathered insights of the creative industry and did first professional graphic design works

high school diploma (A Levels)

2003 - 2009 • focus: sociology & psychology

employment

Working as full time software developer for Profitbricks. Among many other tasks I was mainly working on a graphical provisioning interface written in Dojo. Check it out here
Maintenance, conception and implementation of the data center designer, the customer-facing rich internet application. Our main product. From a technical as well as usability point of view
Reducing churn, increasing customer conversions and retention by improving user experience and usability of the product
Conceptual support and technical implementation of a new REST API including rewriting the old frontend APIs
Architectural participation in the introduction of new features
Development and maintenance of various complex plugins and tools to support different frontends of our stack
Management and guidance of external contractors and integration of third parties
Support and development of a junior developer
Profitbricks is a cloud-hosting & internet as a service company

Worked as full time interactive developer for Hi-ReS! Berlin on an Angular dealerlocator for BMW.
besides learning Angular and to write end to end & unit tests, I worked on large scale applications that were deployed in more than 26 Markets including right-to-left language markets (i.e. egypt).
Hi-ReS! is a branding agency

Work in digital design & development for edenspiekermann_ Berlin on a relaunch project of an online book community
assisting with extensive quantitative and qualitative user researches during the project to research usability
design and development of the sign-up process and on-boarding flow of new users
edenspiekermann_ is a Branding Agency

work as a designer and developer for agentur-rubbeldiekatz Bonn, Germany
redesign of 2 websites: outdoorgym & apt
3D prototyping for i22 one of the largest web companies in western germany
led over a dozen creative marketing campaigns, corporate identity designs and the branding of almost all clients

film technologist at international filmschool cologne
set-runner for 2Pilots for WDR. Movie: 'Es ist alles in Ordnung' (4,8 million TV-viewer). Directed by: Nicole Weegmann. Camera: Ngo The Chau
assistant unit manager for Hives. An international sequel. Directed by: Simon Dolensky
driver for Ratten. Directed by: Viktoria Gurtovaj
making of for Aufstrich (289 KM). Directed by: Charlotte Marie Rolfes
driver & making of for 21kHz (300 Mal). Directed by: Alexandra Brodski
sound assistant for Gypsie. Directed by: Raluca-Maria Rusu

skills

Besides being creative and able to design & develop anything, the most important thing I learned over the years is to learn how to learn. That is what I improve every day by being genuinely interested in challenges. It entails being able to learn whatever is of use to solve your problem within a short amount of time. That is why I am confident to tackle anything. However, I still put up a list of