Gabriel Muller

Product Manager

Zurich, Switzerland4 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • 10+ years of experience in Angular development.
  • Expert in building scalable and maintainable applications.
  • Proven track record in optimizing performance and CI/CD.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Angular expert with extensive experience in frontend architecture and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

AngularFrontend ArchitectureReact

Other Skills

Angular MaterialTypeScriptEnd-to-End Testing (Playwright / Cypress)RxJSSignalsPerformance OptimizationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Build OptimizationMonorepo ArchitecturePrimeNGOpenShiftReduxCypressEnd-to-end TestingSpring Boot

About

I am a Senior Angular Consultant & Frontend Architect with 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise applications in the insurance and sectors. My focus is building scalable, maintainable and high-performance Angular applications using modern Angular versions and industry best practices. I have led the UI architecture in my last four roles and supported teams of up to 10 frontend engineers across multiple scrum teams. I specialize in solving complex frontend challenges and helping teams accelerate delivery through strong engineering foundations. Core Angular expertise: • Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, Signals • Component architecture, reusable UI libraries, npm packages, Storybook • State management: shared services or Redux • Performance optimization & scalability • Monorepo setups (pnpm, Nx, custom workspace architectures) Testing & CI/CD: • End-to-end testing with Playwright and Cypress • Unit testing (Jest, Vitest) • CI/CD pipeline ownership (GitLab, Azure, OpenShift) • Build optimization, quality gates, automation Consulting work (1–8 week engagements): • Architecture reviews & refactoring strategies • Performance audits & debugging • Setting up design systems and UI libraries • Improving or creating CI/CD pipelines for Angular apps • Test automation frameworks (Playwright/Cypress) • Coaching teams on modern Angular best practices I am also experienced across several backend ecosystems — Java, Node.js, .NET, Python and Ruby — which helps me collaborate effectively across the stack and support API integration and debugging when needed. I am open to long-term Angular contracting roles as well as short, high-impact consulting engagements for teams needing fast expertise in architecture, performance, testing or CI/CD.

Experience

4 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Postfinance

Senior Angular developer

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Bern, Berne, Switzerland · Hybrid

  • In the Analytical team, our responsibility was to transform complex reporting XML files into fully interactive Angular dashboards used across the organization. I focused on performance, architecture, developer experience, and end-to-end automation to help the UI team deliver faster and more reliably.
  • Reduced Angular build time from 3 minutes to 12 seconds
  • Reduced dashboard load time from ~25 seconds to ~3 seconds (By applying performance-focused Angular patterns, optimizing change detection, using a dynamic builder.)
  • Ensured robust parsing, reusable component structures, and a clean separation between data processing and UI rendering.
  • Built the entire CI/CD pipeline in GitLab (Introduced build caching, lint/test stages, quality gates, pipeline optimizations, automated deployments, and stability improvements.)
  • Implemented the full Playwright end-to-end testing framework (Designed the test structure, created reusable testing utilities, and fully integrated E2E tests into the GitLab pipeline.)
Angular MaterialTypeScriptEnd-to-End Testing (Playwright / Cypress)AngularFrontend ArchitectureRxJS+5

Suva

Lead Angular developer

Jul 2024Dec 2024 · 5 mos · Lucerne, Switzerland · Hybrid

  • As the Lead Angular Developer on a scrum team at SUVA, I was responsible for the delivery and technical direction of four internal Angular applications used daily by ~500 employees to process client claims. My work focuses on modern Angular development, UI quality, testing automation and engineering best practices.
  • Developing and enhancing Angular applications using Angular 18, TypeScript and PrimeNG, with a strong focus on maintainability, performance and clean architecture.
  • Building Playwright end-to-end tests, ensuring reliability, stability and full integration into the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Collaborating with backend teams, business analysts and testers to ensure smooth delivery across the entire platform.
  • Maintaining state management using Redux-based patterns, enabling predictable, scalable data flow across multiple applications.
TypeScriptPrimeNGOpenShiftReduxContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)End-to-End Testing (Playwright / Cypress)+2

Swiss re

Lead Angular developer

Nov 2019Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland · Hybrid

  • At Swiss Re I held a highly hands-on role modernising the finance department’s processes through the development and optimisation of numerous Angular applications (Angular 8 → 17). I acted as the lead/principal Angular developer within the finance organisation, focusing on architecture, reusable UI components, automation and cross-team collaboration.
  • One of my major initiatives was the creation of a shared UI component library, built from scratch as an extension of Angular Material. This library is now used by 6 scrum teams and 10+ applications, contains 45+ components, and continues to evolve collaboratively across all teams.
  • Created the shared UI component library used across all teams, including component architecture, documentation and Storybook integration.
  • Led UI architecture across multiple Angular applications, ensuring consistency, scalability and best practices across 10 frontend developers in 6 scrum teams.
  • Owned and maintained Azure DevOps pipelines for frontend builds, testing and deployments.
  • Led end-to-end testing efforts with Cypress, including Dockerized test execution and test reliability improvements.
  • Interviewed and evaluated new frontend developers and provided mentoring for junior and mid-level engineers.
  • Contributed hands-on to the development and refactoring of Angular applications across versions 8–17, focusing on performance, maintainability and modern best practices.
CypressAngular MaterialTypeScriptEnd-to-end TestingSpring BootMicrosoft Azure+5

Marks and spencer

Senior React developer

Jan 2019Nov 2019 · 10 mos · London, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • I was hired by Marks & Spencer to contribute to their brand-new Sofa Configurator platform, working on highly visible customer-facing features. My work focused on both custom JavaScript development and modern React.
  • Led the development of the “See It in Store” feature, enabling customers to locate sofas available in physical stores.
  • Developed key parts of the Sofa Configurator used for real-time product customization and visualization.
React.jsFrontend ArchitectureReact

Managed 24/7

Lead fullstack developer (Angular / Node.js)

Apr 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Milton Keynes, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Managed 24/7 is a boutique technology company focused on predictive management, monitoring and analytics. I was hired to lead the development and architecture of their new cloud-based real-time analytics system, a platform designed for high availability and continuous data processing.
  • Over two years, I designed the system from the ground up and delivered key real-time visualisation and dashboard capabilities.
  • Architected the entire application from scratch, defining the frontend, backend and data flows.
  • Technologies: Angular 6, Node.js, Express, MongoDB
  • Developed bespoke real-time graphs capable of handling live data streams.
  • Technologies: D3.js, Socket.io, SignalR
  • Created highly customizable dashboards, allowing users to compose, resize and reorganize widgets dynamically.
  • Technologies: Gridster.js, RxJS, Redux
Angular MaterialTypeScriptEnd-to-end TestingEnd-to-End Testing (Playwright / Cypress)AngularFrontend Architecture+2

Santander uk

Lead Angular developer

Feb 2017Apr 2017 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • I joined Santander as lead Angular developer. I had two main tasks, demonstrate how to develop re-usable npm Angular 2+ components and create a prototype for their new International Payment Website.
TypeScriptnpmAngularFrontend Architecture

Workforce software

Software Developer / Scrum Master

Apr 2016Feb 2017 · 10 mos · Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  • WorkForce Software proposes a Scheduling and Forecasting SaaS solution for the world's biggest retailers. Imagine H&M, Wallmart or Harvey Norman, which have a lot of employees working in shifts. WFS application allows managers to optimize schedules so that there is always the right amount of people, at the right place and at the right time. During my time at WorkForce Software worked as a part-time Scrum Master, part-time front-end developer.
  • As Scrum Master my responsibilities were:
  • Facilitating scrum ceremonies - grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, stand-ups.
  • Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.
  • Empowered teams to grow self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
  • As a front-end developer my achievements were:
  • Boost our Angular.js unit test coverage from 60% to 90%.
  • Prepare the migration from angular 1 to angular 2.
  • Feature development on the new clocking functionality.
  • Lead automated end to end testing effort.
AngularJSScrumEnd-to-end TestingContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)End-to-End Testing (Playwright / Cypress)Angular+1

Unisphere

Co-founder

Sep 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Strasbourg Area, France

  • Unisphere is an innovative cloud based Virtual Learning Environment for higher educational institutions. It aims at improving collaboration and file sharing between students and teachers. From my startup experience I gained extensive experience in SaaS product life cycles, UX/UI development, customer satisfaction and product pitching. Below is a list of our achievements:
  • Successfully created an angular.js / ruby on rails MVP in 5 months.
  • Implemented the product for 500 users across 5 universities in a month.
  • Selected to join both Strasbourg and Oxford Incubation Center.
Frontend Architecture

Impact web

Intern front end developer

Jun 2013Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Strasbourg Area, France

  • Impact web is a small company specialized in java applications. During my two months there, I worked on an application used to quote LED installations in buildings. Given parameters such as the number and size of the rooms, the number of windows and colour of the rooms the application would output the price and type of LED required for equip the building.
  • I joined the project while it was in an MVP state, my role was to upgrade it to make it process data faster. Impact Web was my first company experience and I learned a lot from it, especially:
  • Insight into a small business
  • Version control in Software Engineering
  • Team working in Software Engineering
  • Code debugging

Education

Cranfield University

English - Master of Science — Distributed Computing & e-Science

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Esigelec engineering school

French - Master of Science — Information Technology Project Management

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Lycée Couffignal - Strasbourg

French - Undergraduate program — math & physics

Jan 2008Jan 2011

EM Strasbourg Business School

Degree in Business Management and Entrepreneurship

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