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elias douglas

Building the web, quietly.

Frontend developer crafting beautiful interfaces and intuitive user experiences.

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§ 001 / Work

Work

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Zurich Airport

Flughafen Zürich AGFrontend Team Lead
2023 — Present

Leading frontend development on the digital platform for Switzerland's largest airport.

Frontend team lead on flughafen-zuerich.ch — the digital surface connecting travelers with retail, travel information, and airport services. The work spans performance, accessibility, and a component architecture that flexes across passenger, retail, and operational contexts.

Contribution

Technical direction for the frontend team, component architecture, performance and accessibility standards, and the gradual migration of legacy pages into a modern component system.

Built with

TypeScriptNext.jsReactSitecore
ClientFlughafen Zürich AG
RoleFrontend Team Lead
Year2023 — Present
StatusLive
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Unwrap

Personal ProjectFull-stack
2026

Gift a digital ticket as a cinematic reveal.

Unwrap turns any digital ticket — concert, festival, museum pass, .pkpass, PDF — into a shareable reveal. The sender wraps a file with a short card; the recipient opens a translucent 3D shrink-wrap cube and downloads the ticket or adds it to the mobile wallet. No accounts, no tracking — the link is the credential.

Contribution

Built solo, end to end. Design, architecture, and implementation — including the React Three Fiber transmission-shader cube, the upload and reveal flows, and the Upstash + Vercel Blob storage layer.

Built with

TypeScriptNext.jsReact Three FiberTailwindUpstash RedisVercel Blob
ClientPersonal Project
RoleFull-stack
Year2026
StatusPreview
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PartyFinance

PartyFinanceFull-stack Web3 Developer
2021 — 2023

A gamified DeFi platform where friends invest as a group.

PartyFinance offered a gamified investing experience — users formed parties, traded, and learned together. The work spanned the full ecosystem: landing page, trading app, and the analytics surface that visualized on-chain KPIs.

PartyFinance preview

Contribution

Ongoing creation, maintenance, and expansion of three interconnected products. Smart-contract integration through ethers and web3-react, data layer via The Graph.

Built with

Next.jsReactTypeScriptChakra UIethersThe GraphPrisma
ClientPartyFinance
RoleFull-stack Web3 Developer
Year2021 — 2023
StatusOffline
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Illiquid Market

UnvestLead Frontend Developer
2022

An OTC marketplace for vested cryptocurrency tokens.

Illiquid Market is an over-the-counter marketplace that lets holders of locked tokens trade peer-to-peer with zero slippage. Designed to serve Web3 teams running token offerings and the investors who support them.

Illiquid Market preview

Contribution

Led frontend implementation. Translated pixel-perfect designs into production code, contributed to product direction, and owned the end-to-end user experience for the marketplace surface.

Built with

Next.jsReactTypeScriptChakra UIethersThe Graph
ClientUnvest
RoleLead Frontend Developer
Year2022
StatusLive
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§ 002 / About

About

Profile

A decade-plus building for the web — focused on performance, accessibility, and effortless interfaces.

Currently frontend lead at Unic AG, working on the digital platform for Zurich Airport. The role spans frontend architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting a small team.

Prior experience spans freelance product work and Swiss enterprise engineering — FinTech, EduTech, and government finance software — with a stretch in Web3 during the DeFi cycle.

Started out in the .NET ecosystem back in 2011, and now works primarily with modern web frameworks — TypeScript, Next.js, and React.

Frontend
TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwindFramer MotionAngular
Backend
Node.js.NET / C#PrismaMongoDBMSSQL
Web3
ethersweb3-reactThe GraphSmart contract integration
Practice
Design systemsPerformanceAccessibilityProject management
§ 003 / Experience

Experience

CareerMost recent first.
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04/2023 — Present now
Senior Frontend Developer
Zurich, CH
10/2021 — 04/2023
Freelance Software Engineer
DevSpace Douglas
Lucerne, CH
01/2018 — 06/2019
Project Manager & Software Engineer
Lucerne, CH
10/2014 — 07/2017
Software Engineer — Finalization
Sursee, CH
08/2012 — 06/2014
Apprenticeship — Software Engineer
Lucerne, CH
08/2011 — 07/2012
IT Internship
Luzern, CH
§ 004 / Contact

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