Robert Pataki
Verified Expert in Engineering
HTML5 Video Developer
Rob started out as a digital designer over a decade ago—his love of beautiful, user friendly designs drove him to learn to code ActionScript so that he could bring his designs to life through interaction and animation. Over the years, he became obsessed with object-oriented coding, and when the Flash ship started to sink—he focused on learning how to use modern browsers to deliver the Flash experience without plugins using JS, CSS, and HTML5.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Gulp, Git, Chrome, Sublime Text 3, OS X
The most amazing...
...open source JS library I've been maintaining (BREWSER) has been tremendously helpful to detect device types and browser capabilities.
Work Experience
Creative Partner | Front-End Developer
Handcrafted Digital London
- Founded a digital consultancy collective called Handcrafted Digital in London, UK. Their main goal is to bring together like-minded creative thinkers to work on cutting edge solutions, and to offer their clients the best possible digital consultancy service ever.
- Worked on major UK bank projects aiming to make the face of online banking less daunting to customers not so familiar/comfortable with online banking.
- Helped a UK startup to build a cutting edge online video solution, which in 2014 received recognition—the project was an honoree in the Best Use of Video or Moving Image category by the Webby Awards.
- Worked as a freelancer to help fellow London-based agencies as a front-end developer. Worked on a dozen websites and advertising campaigns.
- Created an open-sourced BREWSER.js, a small JavaScript library, which helps developers to detect their user's device type (mobile, phablet, tablet, desktop), and browser capabilities to make sure that their website/app works best on every device, and that they are serving the right content and interaction types to their users.
- Helped his clients as a UX/UI/development consultant.
- Specialized in building responsive rich media interactive websites and web apps.
Front-End Developer
Procore Marketing (2nd Account) (via Toptal)
- Created a mouse scroll position based animation sequence.
- Optimized the animation performance using a mixture of CSS3 and GreenSock animations.
- Updated the existing code base to improve the visual impact and performance.
Freelance Front-End developer
ustwo
- Worked on an exciting project for a major UK bank to make the face of online banking more appealing to the older and not so tech-savvy generation.
- Maintained a bunch of Jenkins boxes for the project to make sure that the teams continuous integration was in good hands.
- Worked with the best UX, UI, and developer talents in town.
- Learned a lot about writing vanilla JavaScript due to the fact that we were not allowed to use any plugins for the project.
- Enjoyed working in an Agile environment.
Front-End Developer
Unboxed Consulting
- Had multiple training sessions about Agile and Scrum, which Unboxed have been great advocates for.
- Worked on the FutureLearn website for 6 months - from the very beginning until the launch. Was responsible for working with a bunch of RoR talents, and to build the site's front-end from the ground up.
- Learnt a lot from his fellow developers about doing TDD, Git, and pair programming the right way.
Creative Technologist
Waste Creative
- Worked on various advertising campaigns using different types of Flash technologies.
- Worked closely with Microsoft on advertising solutions for the XBox platform using Flash Lite.
- Worked with super talented designers, and built rich media, cutting edge websites for clients such as Sega, Turner, and Disney.
- Built a super sleek website in AS3 for the English band - The White Lies, which both the client and the fans loved.
- Worked on creative concepts and prototypes with the designer team.
Lead Designer
Artklikk
- Designed the startup's logo and branding elements.
- Designed and built the flagship product's (Full XS traffic monitoring system) website.
- Worked on the flagship product's (Full XS traffic monitoring system) mobile application using Flash Lite.
UI Designer | Flash Animator | Developer
Naiad
- Worked on various hospitality business websites.
- Designed and prototyped innovative solutions for the company's clients.
- Learned to code in ActionScript 3.
- Worked closely with Gabor Tatrai, who became co-founder of Handcrafted Digital in 2014.
UI Designer | Flash Animator | Developer
Carussel Group
- Worked on creative advertising campaigns for all major car manufacturer brands in the CEE region.
- Involved heavily in the creative process of the campaigns.
- Built numerous interactive rich media websites using Flash and ActionScript 2.
UI Designer | Flash Animator | Developer
Carnation
- Worked on major brands; designing the advertising campaigns.
- Built loads of interactive websites and apps using Flash.
- Brainstormed on online advertising campaigns.
Multimedia Developer
Pókháló Kft.
- Built a Flash framework to support the business's goals.
- Animated and coded interactive learning materials.
Experience
Amplify Website
http://weareamplify.comBREWSER.js
Virgin Media Pioneers - Interactive Documentary
GreenSock JS Rails Gem
http://rubygems.org/gems/greensock-railsFuture Learn
https://www.futurelearn.comSang Bleu Club eCommerce
Paradise or Persecution
The website's main goal was to raise awareness of popular travel destination countries' mistreatment of their local LGBT community, which is a very important problem, as criminalizing sexual differences makes it virtually impossible for charities and health organizations to properly educate the populations about sexual diseases.
The website invites the users to participate in a simple correct/incorrect type quiz—through which they can get a better idea of how friendly these countries are to tourists—while being completely hostile towards their own LGBT community.
Skills
Languages
HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, HTML, CSS, Ruby, PHP
Frameworks
JavaScript MVC, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Chrome, Angular
Libraries/APIs
HTML5 Canvas, RequireJS, jQuery, Backbone.js, ScrollMagic
Tools
Yeoman, Git, Grunt, Gulp, Sublime Text 3, Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, NPM, Webpack, GreenSock, Jenkins
Paradigms
Responsive, Agile Software Development, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), OS X
Other
HTML5 Video, CSS Preprocessors, Animation
Education
Higher National Diploma in Multimedia Technology
Számalk - Budapest, Hungary
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