Kai-Adrian Rollmann
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PERSONAL
Living in
Berlin
Birthplace
Ostfildern, Germany
Age
27
Nationality
German
MISSION
Solving hard problems with well designed, hand-tailored web applications. What matters to me is working together with passionate people on a massively transformative purpose.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jul 2018 - Now
Independent Software Engineer
Creating a widely used paraglider comparison platform
Developing a document editor for digital anamnesis
Athena, Berlin, Germany
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Technical Product Manager
neXenio, Berlin, Germany
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Lead Frontend Engineer
neXenio, Berlin, Germany
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Freelance Frontend Developer and Designer
Creating a highly interactive React App
bakdata, Berlin, Germany
Since May 2016
May 2015 - Mar 2016
September 2014 - May 2015
Web Developer (full-stack) and Design Thinker (giving workshops)
Goodpatch, Tokyo, Japan
September 2013 - July 2014
Teaching assistant for the ME310 Product Design & Engineering course
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
September 2012 - June 2013
ME310 student in a triangle project to reinvent advertising, supported by Rovio (Angry Birds creator)
KIT Japan, Aalto University Finland, HPI Germany
April - May 2014
3D modeler of a Japan-inspired game center
GameOn, Berlin, Germany
March 2012 - September 2012
Student assistant (programming Coffeescript / Java) at the chair of
Enterprise Platform & Integration Concepts
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
August - September 2011
Team internship (7 people, 6 weeks full time) in Research Prototyping
SAP, Walldorf, Germany
May 2010 – February 2012
Student assistant (3D modeling) at the chair of Computer Graphics
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
August - September 2007
Internship (3 weeks full time) in Manufacturing Support
Linde Material Handling GmbH, Basingstoke, England
As a pupil
Worked in side jobs including: conducting surveys in trains, cleaning shoes at the cobbler, preparing meat at the butcher
EDUCATION
October 2012 – May 2016
M.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering (grade: 1.2)
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
October 2009 – June 2012
B.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering (grade: 1.5)
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
September 2000 – June 2009
German Abitur
Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium, Aschaffenburg, Germany
PERSONAL PROJECTS
August 2018
Gliderbase, the biggest paraglider comparison platform (Jan 2019)
July 2016
Kandinsky Questionnaire, a repetition of an experiment originally conducted by the artist Wassily Kandinsky
May 2016
Star Coordinates, a browser implementation of the multi-dimensional data visualization technique
December 2015
Amp Five, a site to manage todo items with infinite hierarchy
since February 2012
Small open source projects on Github
since June 2007
Commercial graphics and 3D art work on Fotolia
TECHNICAL SKILLS(in descending order by skill level)
Programming languages
JavaScript (ES6), Python, Ruby (incl. Rails), Java, CSS, SQL, Linux Shell, LaTeX, R, Objective C, C / C++,
Familiar Frameworks / Libraries
React, Redux, Webpack, D3.js, P5.js, Processing, jQuery
Programs / Tools
Git, Docker, Vim, Eclipse, XCode, Maxon Cinema 4D, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Visual Studio, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, various office suites
Languages
German (native), English (fluent), Japanese (basics), French (basics), Spanish (basics)
INTERESTS
Sports
Paragliding, beach volleyball, bouldering, running, inline-skating
Hobbies
Digital / 3D art, good conversations, language learning, reading