Mike Fischer
is a digital craftsman from Chicago,
with strong backgrounds
in management, engineering,
and design.
Some things I'm proud of:
Role
Project Manager
Engineering Lead
Interaction Director
Description
Shopping is lots of fun, but bringing your goods home is not. Rikscha’s service DingDong fills this gap. The app allows users to quickly order a delivery for their goods, along with a subscription, and pay for the desired service. The app was built with React Native, and talks to a backend built with Firebase.
Responsibilities
Project Management
App Development
Backend Architecture Design / Implementation
Role
Project Manager
Engineering Lead
Interaction Director
Description
As a companion to the DingDong app, an interface for customer service was needed to complete orders for people without cell phones. The entirety of the apps’ process is reproduced – this time in a React webapp – but now with the ability to search for customers. Accounting features were later added for the Rikscha backoffice.
Responsibilities
Project Management
App Development
Backend Architecture Design / Implementation
Role
Project Manager
Engineering Lead
Interaction Director
Description
Bern loves red geraniums so much, it hosts a yearly market on the Bundesplatz in celebration. With Rikscha providing the home delivery services, we needed a solution to quickly process orders. Both users and service staff alike can input order contents and delivery addresses. After doing so, corresponding order stickers get printed out, along with a receipt.
Responsibilities
Project Management
Webapp Development
Backend Architecture Design / Implementation
Hardware Engineering
Role
Engineering Lead
Chief Happiness Officer
Description
Are you doing anything fun this weekend? HYLL is the premier leisure activity platform, taking cues from Spotify, Tiktok and Tinder. To make this experience seamless requires an immense amount of coordination for the app, its' UI/UX, the backend, its' data science, and the content – for all of which, both in the present and future, I was responsible.
Responsibilities
Planning and leadership of features and their architecture
Management of priorities, milestones, and deliveries
Filling in the gaps in engineering
Team morale & culture
Role
Product Owner
Design Lead
Description
Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers, we built the next generation of the NEEO Remote. Designed to break into the more lucrative ‘integrator’ market, it was mothballed when the home automation giant Control4 purchased the budding startup.
Responsibilities
Management of priorities, milestones, and deliveries
Interface design
Node.js & interface development
Roles
Project Manager
Engineering Lead
Description
A financial planner I built in collaboration with visual artist Nihad Nasupovic. The experience ran on the Microsoft Hololens, via an extension of Unity that he developed. Meanwhile, I wrote the script that sent the financial data to the server that I also wrote, that combined the input from two succinct interfaces that I also created; and later produced PDFs. After coordinating many rounds of client testing and feedback, the project culminated in a 3 day event at UBS Headquarters in London, where it was demoed to all workers, to potential customers, and to the board of UBS Innovation.
Responsibilities
Project management
Client communication
Development of all data processing software
Hardware coordination
Role
Technical Coordinator
Engineering Lead
Description
Working together with Intensiv GMBH, I built a game of chance for a 3 day promotional event at the Zürich Main Train Station. It attracted a large swath of players, and helped market the underlying Lindt Sensation Fruit chocolate candies.
Responsibilities
Hardware coordination
Hardware programming
Software development
Adaptation of design
Addtionally,
I occasionally write things,
and tweet things.
My CV is here.
I am a 36 year old digital craftsman from Chicago, Illinois. I live in Bern, Switzerland.
I am a self taught software engineer with a wide range of experience.
I play the drums in a funk band, and the bass in a rock band. I'm a fan of outer space, good whiskey, and minimalism.
I studied graphic design at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and I studied abroad at the Hochschule Luzern für Design und Kunst.
I have worked with people like HYLL AG, Control4, NEEO, Intensiv, iBrows, UFirst Group, and Maxomedia.
I have made work for companies like UBS, Lindt, Airatel, SBB, BioSuisse, and EWB.
I like to work with tools like Node.js, Raspberry Pi, Angular, Typescript, React, Vue, Reactive javascript, Digital Ocean, Photoshop and Illustrator.
I like to build my own tools. I like clean code. But I also like shipping things.
I cha Schwiizerdüütsch ender guet redä, und Hochdeutsch auch schreiben; yo hablo un pequito Español, and my mother tongue is English.
When I’m not hacking, I’m either playing loud music, or exploring the Swiss Alps.
Get in touch:
The older version of this site is here.
© 2023 Mike Fischer.