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Kai-Adrian Rollmann
Digital Product Design & Development
Berlin, Germany
Homepage
GitHub
Nationality
German
Age
31
MISSION
Working on a transformative purpose, together with passionate people. Making a difference with well designed, hand-tailored digital products.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jul. 2018 - Now
Digital Product Design & Development
Frontend engineering in different teams, building conversational AI tools for enterprises
Rasa, Berlin, Germany
Frontend development in the desktop web shop team
AboutYou, Hamburg, Germany
Designing & developing a self-service analytics solution for health insurances
Institut für Gesundheitsforschung, Berlin, Germany
Design and frontend development of a machine learning platform
SiaSearch, Merantix, Berlin, Germany
Starting a widely used paraglider comparison platform
Designing & developing a document editor for digital anamnesis
Athena, Berlin, Germany
Nov. 2017 - Jun. 2018
Technical Product Manager
Being there for the teams, refining processes, detailing features, ensuring delivery, preparing sprints, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
(~20 developers, 4 teams)
neXenio, Berlin, Germany
Feb. 2017 - Oct. 2017
Lead Frontend Engineer
Leading a growing, strong team of frontend developers. Less programming. Coordination where necessary, lots of code review and quality assurance.
neXenio, Berlin, Germany
Sep. 2016 - Feb. 2017
Freelance Frontend Developer & Designer
Designing and building a highly interactive web app with React / Redux in the areas of health, big data, and data analysis.
bakdata, Berlin, Germany
May 2016 - Feb. 2017
May 2015 - Mar. 2016
Part time Web Developer
Supporting senior engineers with React frontend and Rails backend development.
Skive, Berlin, Germany
Sep. 2014 - May 2015
Web Developer and Design Thinker
Giving design thinking workshops; building a multi-language full stack blog system, using Rails and prismic.io; developing responsive landing pages.
Goodpatch, Tokyo, Japan
Sep. 2013 - Jul. 2014
ME310 teaching assistant
Supporting a product design & engineering team with design thinking process, toolkit, and mindset.
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Mar. 2014 - May 2014
Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2013
ME310 student
Triangle project to reinvent advertising, supported by Rovio – the Angry Birds creator. Building an iOS app using objective-c.
KIT Japan, Aalto University Finland, HPI Germany
Mar. 2012 - Sep. 2012
Student assistant
Programming Coffeescript & Python at the chair of Enterprise Platform & Integration Concepts.
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Aug. - Sep. 2011
Team internship
Programming Java for Research Prototyping in a 7 people team, 6 weeks full time.
SAP, Walldorf, Germany
May 2010 – Feb. 2012
Student assistant
3D modeling at the chair of Computer Graphics.
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Aug. - Sep. 2007
Internship
Excel, 3 weeks full time, in Manufacturing Support
Linde Material Handling, Basingstoke, England
Before 2007 (school sidejobs)
Conducting passenger interviews in trains; cleaning shoes at the cobbler; preparing meat at the butcher.
EDUCATION
Oct. 2012 – May 2016
M.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering – grade: 1.2
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Oct. 2009 – Jun. 2012
B.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering – grade: 1.5
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Sep. 2000 – Jun. 2009
German Abitur
Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium, Aschaffenburg, Germany
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Aug. 2018 - Today
Gliderbase, the paraglider comparison platform with the most up-to-date wing data on the market
Jan 2019
Minesweeper, an own ad-free re-imagination of the old, popular Microsoft game
Jul. 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
Dec. 2015
Amp Five, a site to manage todo items with infinite hierarchy
2007 - 2012
Commercial graphics and 3D art work
Fotolia (now Adobe Stock)
TECHNICAL SKILLSdescending order by skill level
Programming languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, CSS, Python, Ruby, SQL, Java, Linux Shell, LaTeX, R, Objective C, C / C++
Frameworks / Libraries
React, NestJS, Redux, Express, Rails, Gatsby, Webpack, D3.js, P5.js, Processing, jQuery
Programs / Tools
Git, Docker, Vim, Nginx, Figma, Sketch, Eclipse, XCode, Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Microsoft Visual Studio, Excel
Spoken Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
Japanese (basics)
French (basics)
Spanish (basics)
INTERESTS
Sports
Paragliding, climbing & bouldering, running, beach volleyball, inline-skating
Hobbies
Good conversations, language learning, digital arts, cooking, reading