I love implementing responsive and mobile first design and architecture based on SMACSS and object oriented CSS using preprocessors and I have experience in maintaining large (S)CSS codebases and develop and implementing coding standards within a team.
Since creating my first websites in 1997 with HTML tables and CSS 1, the web has changed constantly. As key capacities in being a frontend developer, I consider the evolution of new technologies and curiosity about new ideas.
Following the development of web standards and browsers for many years I internalized concepts of accessibility, semantic web and CSS.
As one of my key assets I consider my a passion for lean and structured CSS code and fun in writing performant and maintainable Javascript. I can develop accessible progressively enhanced Websites with minimalistic Javascript, tight CSS components and automatically generated style guides documenting the components as well as one page apps using modern frontend workflows tooling like NPM, Gulp or AngularJS.
As a graduated photo engineer I have a deep understanding of digital imaging using Photoshop, Illustrator or scripted image manipulation. In my thesis about “Color Management in the Internet” in 2006, I analyzed W3C standard and evaluated different ways to implement professional multimedia workflows on server- and browser side.
In agile Scrum Teams I worked on large projects collaborating teamwork with designers, UX experts and front- and backend developers architecting and implementing responsive mobile first design. I implemented theming in Drupal, WordPress, Shopware, Gallery, Open CMS and countless others.
- Styleguides: KSS-node based styleguide prototyping
- Using frameworks and tools like HTML-Boilerplate, jQuery-UI, Bootstrap, Foundation,
- Introducing SMACSS and code linters like jshint or scss-lint within the team.
- Frontend workflows using Gulp, NPM, Bower, BrowserSync, KSS-Node and many more
- Perfomant javascripts
- SVG and Fontcustom Icons
- Accessible documented performant, lightweight and maintainable CSS / SASS / LESS
- Coding standards and enforcement using Jslint / SCSS-Lint
- Angular2
- webpack
- Large projects, scrum Team work
- Accessibility and content architecture
- Frontend Workflows with gulp
- Applying SMACSS principles
- Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
- Expertise in performance optimization using tools such as YSlow or PageSpeed
- Photoshop and server based imaging with Imagemagick
- Custom Themeing in Drupal, WordPress, Shopware, Gallery, Open CMS
- OOP using Codeigniter
- Basics using Symfony, CakePHP
- Deep understanding of PHP
- Understanding of OOP
- Firm grasp of SEO / SEM best practices