Portrait of Ingo Steinke

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 Companion a member of Impact Hub Berlin.

I'm Here to Help You!

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 over a coffee, with no obligations.

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!

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

Plugin for Shopware

My first Shopware 6 project was an administrative plugin that facilitates load time optimisation for online shops via an API. It was released at the official Shopware store in 2020. store.shopware.com/waoio62482995391f/wao.io-cache-control.html

Shopware 6 Symfony PHP Vue.js

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

Optimization and Enhancement

For the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) consultants at Wandelpunkt-Consulting.de, I added new content and optimised the blog's loading time and accessibility..

WordPress Semplice CSS SVG

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.

Team / 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 E-Commerce Development

I am a certified Shopware 6 Developer and a Shopware Extension Partner.

Open Source / Plugin Development

I am currently working on WordPress plugins to detect plugin conflicts and to send spam reports for WordPress contact forms. I also developed extensions and themes for Shopware, WebStorm, and IntelliJ IDEA, including the free Cute Pink Light Theme .

Full-Stack Experience and Frontend Focus

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.

My focus is CSS based frontend development.

Professional Skills

  • Web Development

    • Markup, Templating
      HTML 5 Markdown XML Liquid Twig handlebars
    • CSS
      CSS 3 SCSS PostCSS tailwind less Bootstrap
    • JavaScript
      ES6 React Preact TypeScript Node.js jQuery
    • PHP
      PHP 7 PHP 8 Composer PHPStan Symfony
    • Database
      MySQL Oracle mongoDB Mongoose
    • XML
      XPath XSLT SOAP UBL
  • Software Stacks

    • JAM Stack, SSG
      JavaScript Eleventy Markdown Liquid npm
    • Design Systems
      fractal SCSS Handlebars Webpack CodeceptJS
    • WordPress
      WordPress PHP HTML CSS JS WooCommerce
    • Shopware 6
      Shopware Bootstrap SCSS JS Twig Symfony
    • LAMP Stack
      Linux Apache MySQL PHP nginx
    • MERN Stack
      mongoDB Express (P)react Node.js TypeScript yarn
  • Other Tools

    • Quality Assurance, Tests, and Audits
      Axe Lighthouse Storybook CodeceptJS Browserstack
    • Linters, Bundlers, Transpilers
      TypeScript Babel Stylelint eslint esbuild PostCSS
    • Collaboration, Project Management
      Scrum Kanban Jira Trello fractal asana GitHub
    • Source Control, Versioning
      Git GitLab GitHub SVN
    • DevOps, Automation
      Docker Jenkins Snowpack Webpack Netlify
    • Image Editing, Image Optimization
      GIMP Inkscape ImageMagick SVG webp guetzli

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

Photograph: Ingo Steinke, Frontend Web Developer, Freelancer, on never code alone TV in 2021 (partial captions in German)
Image: Never Code Alone Conference 2021

A selection of my past talks:

What customers say

Daniela, designer:
I had the pleasure of working with Ingo and am impressed by his expertise in web development. He is not only technically skilled, but also conceptually strong. I find it particularly impressive that Ingo can come up with a solution for every problem. Last but not least, he is characterized by his strong commitment to sustainability. I can therefore highly recommend him!
Malte, photographer:
A few programmers and IT people have already worked at my side, but it's only now that I realize what a huge difference it can make.
Patricia, systemic coach:
We are totally satisfied with Ingo. Absolutely reliable and great results. 100% recommendation!

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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!

Imprint and Contact Information

Ingo Steinke


Donaustr. 83 II
12043 Berlin
Germany

+491634684080
+491634684080
contact@ingo-steinke.com


VAT ID DE337676808

Bank account: GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG
DE89430609673029840000

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