Ingo Steinke
Creative Web Developer
Your Internet Presence Can Inspire Your Customers
My name is Ingo Steinke. I'm a sustainable and creative web developer with more than 20 years of professional experience. Customers who have benefited from my work include nexum, Avenga, and Project Together.
I enjoy working for customers with an ecological and ethical focus in their work! I'm a Changemaker, Fairantworter, Green Companionand a a member of Impact Hub Berlin.
Let's Work Together!
Do you want to overhaul your website? Does your team need support from a front-end developer with full-stack experience?
Call me or leave a message!
I'm happy to discuss your project with no obligations over a coffee in Berlin, via Zoom, or in a phone call.
Pricing
You can choose a time-based fee, or we can agree on a fixed price rate before starting work. My hourly rates depend on the type and extent of the work required, starting at € 85,- (plus VAT). Nonprofit organisations and sustainability-oriented startups can request reduced rates. I usually provide an estimate before starting time-based tasks.
Web and Software Projects
This is a selection of my past projects. Take a look and see what you think!
Sustainable Fashion Website
Kleiderordnung.Berlin is sustainable stylist Tina Steinke's WordPress-based website, featuring an individual front page based on a graphic design by Ina Nixdorf.
www.kleiderordnung.berlin
Source code:
github.com/openmindculture/kleiderordnung-berlin
HTML CSS JavaScript PHP WordPress
Atomic Design System
As senior lead developer on a team of front-end web developers, I developed a modular system for the relaunch of an international corporate customer's multiple websites. The Fractal framework served as a technical basis.
HTML CSS Fractal Handlebars Webpack
WooCommerce-Shop
I support the farm food shop Food Together by enhancing the full site editing block theme for their WooCommerce shop.
foodtogether.de/wer-wir-sind
WordPress WooCommerce PHP CSS
Climate Psychology Campaign
A collaboration between Creatives for Future and Psychologists for Future , the voluntary impact campaign ""You can do it" ("Das kannst du tun")" supports mental health and ecological action. I optimised the responsive display. daskannstdutun.de
WordPress Elementor CSS
Plugin for Shopware
Sustainability in e-commerce also includes price transparency. My free plugin "Cost Transparency" extends the product details in Shopware 6, adding an interactive graphic that illustrates different shares of the total price. github.com/openmindculture/sw-IngoSCostTransparency
Shopware 6 PHP Twig CSS JavaScript
React Web App
wao.io's graphical user interface visualised technical data and allowed webmasters to configure how their websites are optimised. I developed and updated app components as a member of the front-end and support team. wao.io/de/about-us/experts/ingo-steinke
React JSX ES6 CSS-in-JS Storybook
Portfolio Relaunch
My relaunched portfolio at Ingo-Steinke.com reflects my work as a web developer. Minimalist design, modern typography, cutting-edge technology, and extensive textual revisions characterise my updated professional portfolio. Source Code:
github.com/openmindculture/ingo-steinke.de
HTML 5 CSS 3 JavaScript Liquid Eleventy
WordPress Optimization
I extended the content and improved loading speed, accessibility, and mobile display of various WordPress websites like Malte-Reiter.de, a sustainable photographer's portfolio including gallery pages with a lot of existing images.
WordPress BrowserStack PageSpeed CSS
Frontend Enhancement
After doing a ClimateHack project together in 2021, I supported the Cologne based startup Planted by enhancing a webflow project, integrating payment providers, and onboarding a new developer. https://planted.green
Webflow JavaScript HTML CSS
Long-Lasting Solutions
I can implement your layouts across platforms in a responsive and accessible way. My goal is to build long-lasting solutions that are elegant, transparent, and easy to maintain. Modular components, themes, as well as CSS frameworks and methodologies like BEM and Atomic Design help to simplify collaboration and further development. Continuous testing allows me to discover and eliminate errors at an early stage.
My focus is CSS based frontend development. When enhancing existing code, I benefit from professional experience and a pragmatic approach. With back-end and DevOps experience and a high willingness to learn, I can take charge or find a suitable partner for all web development tasks.
Teamwork and Network
I don't have a permanent team but I have established a network of competent business friends, some of whom I have been working with for many years. As a customer, you can also introduce me to the service providers you trust. This way, you retain full control and save yourself the additional work and changing contact partners of traditional agencies.
Reliable and Easy to Understand
For me, it's important to explain technological facts in simple words, to understand my customers' requirements, and to look ahead and implement sustainable solutions. You benefit from lower maintenance costs, optimised performance, and improved customer contact.
Certified and Transparent
I am a certified Shopware 6 Developer and a Shopware Extension Partner. The source code of my work is openly accessible, if data protection allows it. My website's "CO2-footprint" is also publicly visible.
Services
Let's build your website!
- achieve initial success quickly
- sustainable concept from the start
- long-term collaboration
- cooperation with experienced partners
Let's verify your website!
- measure your carbon footprint
- inspect loading time and accessibility
- identify critical errors and problems
- pass audits, obtain certifications
Let's optimize your website!
- your customers will love it
- make it work smoothly on every device
- make it easy to find on Ecosia and Google
- improve and certify its ecological efficiency
Professional Skills
Web Development
- Markup, Templating
- CSS
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Database
- XML
Software Stacks
- JAM Stack, SSG
- Design Systems
- WordPress
- Shopware 6
- LAMP Stack
- MERN Stack
Other Tools
- Quality Assurance, Tests, and Audits
- Linters, Bundlers, Transpilers
- Collaboration, Project Management
- Source Control, Versioning
- DevOps, Automation
- Image Editing, Image Optimization
Work and Passion
What Still Fascinates Me
Worldwide communication and inspiration: The World Wide Web connects people using robust and decentralized technology. Websites designed to offer everyone access to this network need to be attractive, fast, and accessible. My work helps to make this dream a reality.
Professional Background
I co-founded a start-up in 2000 whose first products were interactive websites and browser games. Later, our core business transitioned to search engine optimization and our Active-Webshop software.
While employed as an e-commerce engineer at Xsite in Düsseldorf from 2010 to 2014, I developed online shops for Shop-Apotheke.com, Ars mundi, and other customers. As a technical consultant at Sevenval Technologies (later Avenga Germany) in Cologne and Berlin, I optimized the loading time and mobile phone compatibility of apps and websites for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and online shops for Otto Group and created front-end applications for wao.io and other customers. As a freelance web developer since 2020, I have been working for nexum, FoodTogether and Planted.
Future Topics and Sustainable Development
In the IT industry, innovation, transformation, and digitalization often mean nothing but technological progress. In many cases, social challenges in ecology, equality, participation, safety, and data protection do not receive the priority they deserve. I want to support ethical and ecological projects, for example the transition in the transport sector, renewable energies, environmentally-friendly fashion. I'm a Fairantworter, a reflecta Changemaker, and I signed the Sustainable Web Manifesto.
Creativity, flexibility, and thoughtfulness are the main values that guide my work and personal lives. I am deeply interested in how sustainability, culture, and art come together, and I strive to bring what I learn into my work every day.
In my DEV Blog (dev.to/ingosteinke) and on open-mind-culture.org I regularly publish articles about web development and related technological and societal topics.
Talks, Events, and Customer Feedback
A selection of my past talks:
- Core Web Vitals: Web Performance and Usability
- Performance Optimization without Changing Code
- HSTS: Increasing Security without Losing Performance
- Infrastructure for Improved Web Performance (German)
What customers say
Read more Google Business testimonials...
Interested?
Contact me to schedule a non-binding appointment! I will reply in a timely manner! You can reach my by phone, email, Signal, or WhatsApp. If I can't take a call, feel free to leave me a voice message!
Ingo Steinke
Donaustr. 83 II
12043 Berlin
Germany
contact@ingo-steinke.com
+491634684080
VAT ID DE337676808