Laurids Kern

Laurids Kern

Product Design & Dev in Austria

About

Laurids Kern, a versatile professional based in Vienna, Austria, excels as both a multidisciplinary designer and software engineer. His meticulous nature and rapid learning capabilities make him an invaluable asset to any team. With expertise spanning both design and coding, Laurids serves as an ideal bridge between these two disciplines, seamlessly integrating creativity and technical prowess in his work.

Projects

2024

Leaguetotal is an innovative online platform that produces automated soccer match preview articles for various leagues worldwide. The website currently supports four languages and employs a custom-built plugin for the Strapi CMS, enabling a single moderator to efficiently create hundreds of multilingual articles in a matter of minutes. The site's modular architecture facilitates easy expansion to include additional leagues and languages, making it a versatile and scalable solution for soccer content generation.

Side Projects

2023

Superchat is a delightful iPhone app that brings the power of AI right to your fingertips! Launched in the beginning of 2023, the application quickly gained traction, attracting nearly 2,000 TestFlight users. Following its official release, it amassed over 6,000 downloads and generated close to half a million impressions within a matter of months, demonstrating impressive growth in a short period.

2022

Apibird is a curated list of public APIs. Carefully picked and sorted for your convenience and completely free to use.

2021

We help you share your favorite tweets. We offer a one-click conversion of any tweet's link into a beautiful image.

2021

Original names for your startup. Logo & Domain included.

Avoid hours of brainstorming & research while looking for a name. Focus on building your product

2020

"Collect feedback. Make your customers happy." (acquired in Feb 2021)

  • Strategized and launched a B2B product in a weekend with three friends
  • Worked on product design and the frontend implementation
2019

An app to support you during your treatment. Track your moods and possible side effects. Combined with insightful stats this can help you and your attending therapist to monitor and even improve your treatment.

Work Experience

2023 — Now

Software Engineer and Lead Designer at Margelo, a premier app development firm headquartered in Vienna. Margelo collaborates with international clients, crafting cutting-edge solutions for industry leaders such as Coinbase, Expensify, and Red Bull, among others. Our team's expertise caters to a diverse portfolio of high-profile companies worldwide.

2023 — 2023

Contributed to a strategic product shift by leading a full-scale UI redesign and working on its seamless implementation. Continuously supporting this great team in design and frontend engineering tasks.

2019 — 2023
Vienna

In the position as Art Director at Springtime Technologies I'm responsible for creating and monitoring a consistent, appealing company image as well as improving the user experience the design and the consistency of all our software products.

My skillset for this position, among others, consists of:

- Working with PM's & Information Architects to create the best solution and User Experience.

- Communicating design through wireframes and click-dummys both to Frontend and Clients.

- Building assets for pitches that help us win clients.

- Creating clear prototypes and defining new features

2021 — 2021
Remote

Logo von Temporal Technologies
Frontend EngineerFrontend Engineer
Temporal Technologies · SelbstständigTemporal Technologies · Selbstständig Feb. 2022–Mai 2022 · 4 MonateFeb. 2022–Mai 2022 · 4 Monate RemoteRemote

Supporting the team in the maintenance and further development of the website. Working with Product design to implement new features, fix bugs, and improve existing implementations.
Working mainly with nextjs and tailwindcss.

2021 — 2021
Remote

Working on bringing the first version of the mobile app to the web. Implemented a twitch like player with live chat and similar features in a short timeframe.
Build authentication based on custom auth backend, responsive live streaming player, and landing page.

Challenges:

  • short timeframe
  • performance
2017 — 2018
UI & UX Design Intern at iBM iX
Vienna

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