About me

Student, founder, developer

I like taking something from an idea to a thing people use, and I want to understand every layer of it, from the business case to the server.

I went to school in Wil, in eastern Switzerland, with physics and computer science as my main subjects. In 2023 I built Vocafy for myself and won my first paying client, a local restaurant, by simply asking the owner.

Since then I've built and hosted websites for restaurants, bars and small businesses, released School Companion on both app stores, and moved everything onto one server I run myself.

After a year of Swiss military service, including NCO school in Isone, I moved to Berlin to study Business Management & Entrepreneurship at CODE University. That's where NextUp started. Alongside it I'm one of three in the core team of SwissEduSolution.

Kevin Schmid

Right now

  • Studying at CODE University Berlin
  • Building NextUp with my CODE team
  • Core team at SwissEduSolution
  • Running Agentic OS, my own apps and client sites

Experience

Work

SwissEduSolution — core team

Current

Current · Team of three

  • • Building the company's official website in German and English
  • • Contact pages, cookie consent and the legal pages
  • • Running the company's LinkedIn

NextUp — founding team

Current

Current · Started at CODE University

  • • Began as a team project at CODE University
  • • Now building it into a business

Freelance Web Developer

December 2023 – present · Self-employed

  • • Websites built for paying clients
  • • Deployment & hosting of live systems
  • • Direct client contact and ownership

App Developer

Summer 2024 – present · Self-employed

  • • Own apps designed and built
  • • School Companion (React Native)
  • • Released on the App Store and Google Play

Own projects

March 2023 – present

  • • Agentic OS (personal AI operating system)
  • • Vocafy (full-stack learning platform)
  • • Daily Goals (mobile app)
  • • Serviweb (agency website)

Education

CODE University of Applied Sciences — Berlin

Current

September 2026 – present

  • • B.A. Business Management & Entrepreneurship
  • • Project-based, English-taught, products built in cross-functional teams
  • • Cross-programme Software Engineering modules: architecture, testing, security, data

Military service — UOS Isone

Summer 2025 – Summer 2026

  • • Leadership and responsibility
  • • Working under pressure
  • • Team coordination

Kantonsschule Wil

Graduated 2025

  • • Major in physics & computer science
  • • Elective in computer science

Skills

Tech Stack

The technologies and tools I work with day to day, from the interface down to the containers, pipelines and tests that keep it running.

1
limited knowledge
5
I use it at a high level (in production, debugging included, on real projects)

Frontend

  • HTML5/5
  • CSS4/5
  • JavaScript5/5
  • TypeScript3/5
  • React4/5
  • Next.js4/5
  • Tailwind CSS4/5

Systems & DevOps

  • System architecture3/5
  • Docker4/5
  • Docker Compose3/5
  • Linux3/5
  • Nginx4/5
  • PM23/5
  • SSL4/5

CI/CD & version control

  • Git4/5
  • GitHub4/5
  • GitHub Actions3/5

Testing

  • Playwright3/5
  • Vitest3/5

Mobile

  • React Native4/5
  • Expo3/5

Backend

  • Node.js4/5
  • Firebase3/5

Hosting

  • Vultr4/5
  • Hosttech4/5
  • Hetzner4/5

AI tooling

  • Claude Code4/5
  • Vercel AI5/5
  • Rork5/5

CMS

  • WordPress1/5
  • Framer2/5

Also in production

Tools behind my own products, from the first design to the database.

  • Figma
  • Vite
  • Tauri
  • Capacitor
  • Hono
  • Zod
  • SQLite
  • MySQL

Infrastructure

Deployment & infrastructure

One consolidated Ubuntu server, previously three separate machines, running every site and app below.

  • Server setup & Linux administration
  • Nginx reverse proxy & routing
  • PM2 process management
  • Docker containerisation
  • SSL & domain setup (HTTPS)
  • Hosting (Hetzner, Vultr, Hosttech)

How I work

Self-directed, structured and pragmatic. Used to client projects, deadlines and systems that have to stay up.

  • Self-directed, and I own what I ship
  • Structured, with a clear focus on the next thing that matters
  • Solution-oriented and pragmatic
  • Experienced with client projects and deadlines
  • Comfortable running and maintaining production systems

Building something? Let's talk.

A project, a venture to build together, or a role to talk through. I read every message myself.