Susanna Nevalainen

About

- Creative technologist with 10+ years of international experience in turning ideas into functional, user-friendly, and visually appealing digital products. - Fills the gap between stakeholders, design and development by building responsive 2D/3D web apps from UI/UX design to frontend code and release at a fast pace. - Award-winning AI prompter combining latest AI tools and workflows with traditional product development for maximum impact. - Building impactful products from zero to one at several innovation teams and startups such as CERN, Nokia, Hexagon and Y-Combinator startup SafetyWing. Learn more at http://zuzze.tech

Experience

• Founder / Freelance Consultant · Zuzze Technologies GmbH02-01-2024

  Helping founders and product teams to design and develop engaging user experiences. Developing automation systems, tools and reusable templates to speed up the product development. Tools: TypeScript, Next.js, React, ThreeJS, node.js, GreenSock Animation Platform, Figma, Blender etc.

• Senior Frontend Developer (React) / Principal Design Engineer - Digital Reality Innovation Hub · Hexagon AB02-01-2021 – 12-01-2023

  - Worked at the innovation hub on UI/UX design and frontend of Hexagon Digital Reality (HxDR) platform that visualizes 3D geospatial and reality capture data from Leica scanners (robots, drones, terrestrial) - Built a component based design system with Figma and React components used by 20+ teams creating a basis for the corporate wide design system of 20k employees. - Coordinated development of several products with weekly stakeholder design reviews and trained the team on frontend, design systems, Figma, analytics tools, and user-centered design. - Released two major products: Geospatial Data Store and an award-winning Reality Cloud Studio SaaS platform building an industrial metaverse for reality capture users. Tools: React, Next.js, nx, GraphQL, TypeScript, node.js, Stripe, Cypress, Overmind, Google Analytics, Hotjar, Zapier, WebGL based Luciad RIA 3D Library, Storybook, Chromatic, Jira, AWS

• Lead Frontend Engineer (Vue) - Cleantech Incubator · Oyster Lab by Alpiq03-01-2020 – 01-01-2021

  - Worked in a multidisciplinary innovation team incubating cleanTech projects and moonshots for the Swiss energy company Alpiq. - Built and released several responsive web apps such as Claridoo, a smart electricity monitoring app, and Juicar, an electric car SaaS servicing multiple countries. Tools: Vue.js, Vuex, JavaScript, NativeScript, REST APIs, Airtable, Zapier, Firebase, Jira

• Freelancer - Frontend and UI/UX Design · Susanna Nevalainen01-01-2020 – 02-01-2020

  Provided freelance frontend and UI/UX design services.

• Lead Frontend Engineer (React) - Safety Net for Digital Nomads · SafetyWing10-01-2018 – 12-01-2019

  - First frontend developer & designer of the insurance SaaS Y-Combinator startup for digital nomads - Managed the growing frontend team driving the hiring, onboarding and mentoring. Built 3 products: Nomad Health Travel Insurance for digital nomads (B2C), Remote Health Insurance for remote teams (B2B) and internal dashboard to monitor startup finances, users, affiliates etc. - Scaled to 10k users with +20% monthly growth in less than a year securing $3.5M seed round. Tools: React, JavaScript, Redux, Flux, SQL, MySQL, REST APIs, data visualization, Jira, Google Cloud

• Frontend Developer and Designer (Angular) - Particle Accelerator Data Visualization · CERN07-01-2018 – 08-01-2018

  - Designed and coded a dashboard UI for particle accelerators and related systems from scratch by connecting accelerator API data into a single user-friendly frontend web app Tools: Angular, TypeScript, Rxjs, SQL, REST APIs, SonarQube, data visualization, Jira

• VR Developer and Designer (Angular) - 5G Data Center Management · Nokia01-01-2018 – 06-01-2018

  Developed advanced visualizations for data centers in 2D and virtual reality to monitor data center hardware temperatures Tools: Angular, TypeScript, WebXR, A-Frame, Three.js, d3.js, REST APIs, TypeScript, node.js, Jira

• Web Developer and Designer - 5G Data Center Management · Nokia03-01-2017 – 08-01-2017

  Refactored legacy vanilla JS frontend into Angular frontend for Nokia 5G data center software and developed advanced visualizations for data centers

• Motion Graphics Animator · Aalto Ventures Program04-01-2017 – 07-01-2017

  Created a motion graphics short movie for Aalto Ventures Program

• Software Developer (.NET) - Circular economy · Outotec05-01-2015 – 01-01-2017

  Worked as a software trainee creating recycling plant simulation UI to improve circular economy Tools: VB.NET, WinForms

Education

• KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (Tech), ICT Innovation, Human Computer Interaction and Design
• European Innovation AcademyStartup Accelerator Program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
• Aalto UniversityMasters Degree, ICT Innovation, Human Computer Interaction and Design
• Turun yliopisto - University of TurkuBachelors Degree, Computer Science

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