Philippe Schwyter - Web Developer

About Me

September 2009

Started attending U Waterloo for Nanotechnology Engineering

Nanotechnology Engineering, what's that?
Well... the program focused mostly on materials science, chemistry, physics and also introduced us to concepts in biology and medicine.
I learned a lot about a lot.
September 2011 - April 2012

Biofuels Researcher @ UC Berkeley - Energy Biosciences Institute

Spent 8 months as a visiting scholar working with some of the top scientists in the country. By the time it was over, I was a seasoned researcher and a published author!
January 2013 - August 2013

Product Manager / Game Designer @ SpinPunch

Based in Silicon Valley, SpinPunch is a start-up creating a platform for developing awesome in-browser games. I helped design and produce their facebook games played by hundreds of thousands of people.
June 2014

Graduated and Moved to Toronto!

With a BASc. in Nanotechnology Engineering in hand, I moved to Toronto to start my new adventure. (But, of course, not before travelling for a bit)
October 2014

Bitmaker Labs

Completed a 9 week Web Development bootcamp focusing on both back-end and front-end development. Beyond learning a ton about web development, I also discovered what I was really passionate about - creating awesome web apps.

Location based trade matching for Magic: The Gathering players

Figure out what to cook with what you have!

Address book made with Sinatra.

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript / jQuery

HTML5 / CSS3

AJAX

PostgreSQL

Git / Github

Also have experience in the following:
Frameworks: Ember.js, React.js
Databases: mySQL, MongoDB