About me

Hey. I am Muri.

I was born in 1988 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. My family is from Kayseri, Türkiye.

I have been freelancing as a web developer / designer since 2013. I have worked in some of the biggest German companies, such as: Deutsche Bahn, mobile.de or ImmobilienScout.

In 2023, I did a world trip for 6 months. It is where I decided to add photography to my portfolio. Many of the photos you'll find here are from that world trip. I realized that holding a camera in my hand is when I feel most alive. It is a part of my body for me.

The photo of me on this page depicts me selling my photos for the first time ever – on the Coyoacán art market in Mexico City.

Things I am proud of:

  • Speaking 4 languages
  • Conversational Spanish in 6 months
  • Working as a guest professor at my former art school
  • World trip in 2023
  • Having worked at Deutsche Bahn
  • Playing a Turkish Guitar (Cura)
  • A path I can call my own

CV: Murat Kemaldar

Basics

  • Born: 25th of May, 1988 in Frankfurt
  • Living in Berlin since 2015

Education 📖

  • 2007: Abitur at Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium
  • 2008-2012: Diploma in Communication Design/New Media (Dipl.-Designer, Kommunikationsdesign)

Professional Life 🧳

  • 2011-2012: Employed as Junior Android Developer / Art Director at FINARX GmbH in Darmstadt
  • ⭐️ 2013-Today: Freelance Web Developer (Frontend)
  • 2023-Today: Photographer
  • 2024-Today: Language teacher

Focus: Web Frontend ✨

  • Responsive and accessible User Interfaces
  • 🧡 Heart of a designer; likes to break walls between devs and designers

Tech Stack:

  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Git – 10+ years
  • TypeScript (with React / Vue.js) – 6 years
  • React, React-Redux, React-Router, React Hooks, Next.js – 8 years
  • Vue, Vuex, Vue-Router, Vite, Composition API (Vue 3) – 6 years
  • Sass / LESS, CSS Modules, styled-components, D3 (Data Visualisation) – 5-8 years
  • Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Storybook – 5-8 years
  • Firebase, MongoDB, SQL – 3 years
  • PHP / Wordpress / Kirby CMS – 3 years
  • Optimizely Fullstack (A/B Testing) – 1 year

Noteworthy ✨

  • Speaks 4 languages: German, English, Turkish, Spanish
  • Photography enthusiast since 2013, now jump to professional photography
  • World trip for 6 months in 2023
  • Voluntary work at Leo Matiz Foundation (Colombian photographer) in Mexico City


Selected Web Projects 🧑‍💻

Deutsche Bahn (Sep 2021 - Jan 2023, 17 months)

Frontend development for current bahn.de (which launched autumn 2023) and booking wizards such as catalogue booking (for BahnCards) with Vue.js, TypeScript and Nest.js. Unit Testing with Jest, UI/E2E Tests with Playwright.

Jobvalley (Studitemps) (Mar 2021 - Sep 2021)

Frontend development / UI engineering with React, Next.js and Contentful for the relaunch of Jobvalley (formerly Studitemps).

mobile.de - Private Selling (May 2019 - Dec 2020)

Frontend development / UI engineering for multiple apps and landing pages for the Growth Squad of the Private Selling BU of mobile.de. Setup and execution of experiments (A/B tests) with Optimizely Fullstack. Writing of E2E tests with Cypress.