Katia

Katia

Creative developer in Belgium

About

I'm a creative developer with love for design, development and motion. My goal is to bring beautiful designs to life with animations and interactions so the user has the best brand experience as possible.

Contact

Twitter
LinkedIn

Work Experience

2019 — 2023
Remote

From 2023 I started as a fulltime freelancer.

2019 — 2023
Antwerp

A combination of front-end development and creative development.

2017 — 2019
Antwerp

After my internship at Lunar, I started as a developer at Lunar.

Education

2021 — 2021
Online course

Learning the basics of WebGL with Three.JS: animation, materials, geometries, lights, shadows, shaders, physics, particles, blender basics and physics basics.

Projects

2022

Collaboration between Studio Hyperdrive & MirrorMirror.
Lead front-end developer.
Technologies: Gatsby - ThreeJS

2021

Collaboration between Studio Hyperdrive, NoComputer & Enjoy The Weather.
Lead front-end developer for the touch table which is showcased in the Seoel Nike Store. On this table you can compare 2 Nike shoes.
Technologies: React - Framer Motion

2020

Adding animations and page transitions to existing website.
Technologies: Highway.js - GSAP

2020
Portfolio at Stéphane Martin

Portfolio of 2020, already renewed.
Technologies: Gridsome - GSAP - Sanity CMS

2020

Adding animations and transitions.
Technologies: Gatsby - GSAP - Sanity CMS

2019
GSF Active Speaker at GSF Sono (Studio Hyperdrive)

Software for sounds systems.
Technologies: React

2019

Technologies: Vue - GSAP - Canvas - Craft CMS

2018

Platform for payrolling: creating contracts for employees and employee management.
Lead front-end developer from 2018 until 2019.
Introducing design system which is still in use.
Technologies: Vue

2018

Interactive stories for young children.
Technologies: Vue - GSAP - Web Audio API

Speaking

2022
Automate your testing flow with Cypress at Code for Ukraine #4: A night with JS
remote

Charity event for Ukraine.

2020
Animation on the web at WordPress tech week
Remote

Certifications

2017
Technologies from -

A listing of all technologies I worked with.

Front-End Frameworks

Vanilla setups (Astro)
React (Next.js, Gatsby, Remix)
Vue (Nuxt, Gridsome)

Animation

GSAP
Framer Motion
Transition libraries (Taxi.js, Highway, ...)
Scroll libraries (Locomotive Scroll, Lenis, ...)

3D and interaction

Three.js
PixiJS
Phaser
D3
Howler (Audio)
Zappar (AR)
GLSL shaders

CMS

Payload CMS
Sanity
Strapi
Craft CMS
Kirby
Wordpress
Keeping an eye on Dato CMS and Contentful.

Testing

Jest
Cypress

Backend and DevOps

Not my strength, basic knowledge.
Node.JS
Laravel
Docker
CI pipelines
Vercel
Netlify
Digital Ocean