Luca Mele — Frontend Engineer

At UBS Card Center, my role is to deliver excellent user experience and tech lead a team of 3 to build super fast UIs, for our internal staff, enabling them to deliver great support to our customers. At UBP, my role is to deliver excellent user experience and software solution to increase efficiency At Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, my focus was on leading the transformation of our online specialty stores, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience. Leveraging my expertise in Web Components and Semantic HTML, I've effectively coached teams to deliver high-quality, accessible web applications. With a background as a Senior Frontend Engineer at Vontobel, I honed my skills in establishing long-term frontend strategies and implementing comprehensive testing methodologies. My approach revolves around simplifying complexity while expanding capabilities, evident in my work at Vontobel where I refined the codebase and aligned it closely with design principles. The introduction of design tokens and a streamlined stack has markedly improved build processes and reduced dependencies. This blend of technical leadership and strategic vision underscores my commitment to advancing frontend development and delivering exceptional digital solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-Commerce expert with strong frontend development capabilities.

Location: Kleinandelfingen, Zurich, Switzerland

Experience: 15 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Leadership
Frontend
React
Technical Leadership
Vue.js
User Experience (ux)
Leadership Development
Javascript
Frontend Development

Career Highlights

Expert in frontend architecture and user experience.
Proven leadership in managing and coaching development teams.
Strong background in digital transformation initiatives.

Work Experience

UBS

Chapter Lead / Teamleiter Frontend (1 mo)

Lead Frontend engineer (10 mos)

UBP - Union Bancaire Privée

Senior Software Engineer Consultant (5 mos)

Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund

Lead Frontend engineer (1 yr)

Vontobel

Senior Frontend Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

AXA Switzerland

Senior Frontend Engineer (4 yrs 8 mos)

Atos Consulting

Frontend Developer (1 yr 8 mos)

CREALOGIX AG

Frontend Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Clarity International

Software Engineer (1 yr)

Selesta Ingegneria

IT Support Technician (5 mos)

Intellinet

Programmatore (4 mos)

Formit Foundation

Software Developer (2 yrs)

Education

Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil

Ende 2015 at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil

Post diploma at Centro Elis Roma

Luca Mele

Frontend Engineer

Kleinandelfingen, Zurich, Switzerland15 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in frontend architecture and user experience.
Proven leadership in managing and coaching development teams.
Strong background in digital transformation initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-Commerce expert with strong frontend development capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipFrontendReactTechnical LeadershipVue.jsUser Experience (ux)Leadership DevelopmentJavascriptFrontend Development

Other Skills

Line ManagementTeam LeadershipTypeScriptHTML5NextJsCSSYAGNISemantic HTMLStorybookLernaWeb ComponentsBackbone.jsOracleE-learning DevelopmentTCP/IP

About

Experience

Ubs

2 roles

Chapter Lead / Teamleiter Frontend

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Opfikon, Zurich, Switzerland · Hybrid

Chapter Lead at UBS CardCenter AG, having around 12 people in my Team (Line Manager + Tech Lead)
Architect of a strategy to streamline Frontend development across 3 teams
Lead Frontend Engineer for a central application used to manage all lifecycle event of cards
Architect of a new client facing application

Line ManagementTeam LeadershipLeadershipFront-End DevelopmentFrontendReact

Lead Frontend engineer

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Opfikon, Zurich, Switzerland · Hybrid

Lead Frontend Engineer at UBS Card Center AG, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a React/TypeScript application to support the company’s digital transformation.

ReactTypeScriptTechnical LeadershipFrontendHTML5

Ubp - union bancaire privée

Senior Software Engineer Consultant

Dec 2024 – May 2025 · 5 mos · Zurich, Switzerland · Hybrid

Frontend Developer with VueJS and Vite of a modern order placement application.
Java spring boot

Vue.jsFront-End DevelopmentUser Experience (UX)

Migros-genossenschafts-bund

Lead Frontend engineer

Nov 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr · Zurich, Switzerland

Lead and coach the rewamp of Micasa (not live yet) & Bikeworld (live)
Frontend Architect of a Composable E-Commerce solution
Technical Team Lead of about 6-8 developers

ReactJavaScriptNextJsTypeScriptTechnical Leadership

Vontobel

Senior Frontend Engineer

Apr 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Zurich, Switzerland · Hybrid

Frontend Lead of markets.vontobel.com
Defined long term strategies and guidelines for a long living Frontend Application
Introduced a new way how to deal with components vs "massive utils"
Introduced E2E and component tests (among existing Unit Tests)
Created Design Tokens that represent Figma
Cleaned up existing stack, reduced complexity even with more capability, reduced dependencies, improved build, refactored, etc
Codebase: NextJs 13, React 18, AzureDevOps, SCSS, CSS, Semantic HTML, Accessibility and more

CSSJavaScriptLeadership DevelopmentNextJsYAGNIHTML5+2

Axa switzerland

Senior Frontend Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Winterthur und Umgebung, Schweiz · Hybrid

Since November 2020 till leave date: Frontend Lead Engineer at MyAxa (Customer Portal). SPA written in React, Redux and TypeScript with a JAVA Backend.
Responsible of www.axa.ch Frontend(Adobe Experience Manager, ReactJs, HTML5, ES6+, CSS3, SASS, etc) till October 2020
Founder of a Style Guide team where I was the technical leader and co-founder of the pattern library, a Live Component Library written with Web Components and that works across all major frontend frameworks such as VUE, Angular and React.
Main Architect and Design of a micro-frontend Architecture for a new B2C strategy for the whole AXA CH where single product teams can deploy their JavaScript SPAs on an “Adobe Experience Manager” generated page.
Tutor and instructor for students doing an apprenticeship in Frontend Development “Lehre Praxisbildner”.

CSSJavaScriptLeadership DevelopmentSemantic HTMLStorybookHTML5+5

Atos consulting

Frontend Developer

Oct 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Zürich Area, Svizzera

I'm working as a Frontend consultant at Atos Consulting.
I have contributed to the development of the new CTP website: ch.atosconsulting.com. Main FE technologies include TypeScript, AngularJs (1.4.*), ZURB Foundation, Gulp and SASS
Main customer experience are:
Frontend for a new ticketing Portal for Siemens AG using AngularJS, Telerik Kendo UI and ZURB Foundation
Migration of a Angular 1.2.* Single Page Application from an old ruby based stack to a new stack. This site is a sub-site of Zurich Assurance (Online-Personalvorsorge). I needed to migrate .erb templates to Handlebars templates (used in assemble.io) and old ES5 JavaScript to ES6.

Crealogix ag

Frontend Engineer

Jun 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Zürich Area, Svizzera

I am working for a new version of Crealogix's Tracker Product (Learning Management System) which is a RESTful Single Page Application, written using a Modular Architecture. RequireJs is used to load AMD Modules, BackboneJs are used to make RESTful calls and MarionetteJs (v 1.1.0 and recently v 2.2.0) are used for templating.
My main tasks include:
Concept and development of the entire layout in CSS3/HTML5 using SASS. Main developer of CORE components.
Concept and development of unit test using Jasmine and Karma. Concept and coding of extensions for BackboneJs (Backbone.Collection, Backbone.Navigation).
Concept and coding of extensions for MarionetteJs (Marionette.Layout, Marionette.AppRouter, Mariontte.CompositeView, etc).
Concept and coding of the Build Procedure of the application by using different GruntJs Tasks. Bug fixing on the existing version of the Crealogix product, coded in php5.

Clarity international

Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr · Bergamo, Italia

Software Engineer in an international context, with offices in Bulgaria, and British Telecom as a primary client.
Led the technical component of projects with partner developers in Sofia.
SharePoint 2010 customisation using javascript libraries within the Client Object Model and related modifications of .aspx SharePoint pages.
Participated in a face 2 face workshop with clients in BT’s Adastral Park campus in Ipswich, England for a project in Java Spring (Only Frontend Development).

Selesta ingegneria

IT Support Technician

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Rome, Italia

Managing the software of control, access and revelation equipment for Telecom Italia Spa using Linux Debian Server and DB Oracle.

Intellinet

Programmatore

Mar 2010 – Jul 2010 · 4 mos

Studio fattibilità e progettazione piattaforma e-learning per la Fondazione Formit

Formit foundation

Software Developer

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Roma, Italia

Software developer of an e-learning platform used to manage courses and Masters for both the Fondazione FORMIT and LUSPIO University.
Developer and Software Consultant for the technical department “Stato maggiore della difesa” of the Italian Ministry of Defence.
Created an application in FLASH (Action Script 3) to facilitate the distribution of filmed lectures, slides and chapter indexes which were all synchronised and configured through XML.