I am Eike Foken, a Web and Frontend Developer with nearly 13 years of experience with fullstack and web development, using modern technologies and frameworks. I am 37 years old, currently living in Berlin together with my wife and our lovely cats. I was born on 26th of March 1987 in Aurich, a small town in East Frisia, Northern Germany near the sea.
Experience
Lead Frontend Developer
IBM iX, Berlin
A digital agency and design studio by IBM. Here I'm responsible for leading development and decision making for large-scale frontends, mostly driven by React, Node.js and headless CMS like Strapi and Magnolia. Also I'm working on some React Native and cross-platform apps. Other technologies include TypeScript, GraphQL, Java Spring Boot, etc.. Besides that I am mentoring trainees and junior React developers.
August 2019 - Present
Senior Software Developer
Model Engineering Solutions GmbH, Berlin
A company specialized in quality assurance of software projects, well-known in the automobile industry. I helped developing the so-called Quality Commander, a huge project to visualize Big Data collected from other inhouse software. Used technologies are C# in backend and TypeScript, React as well as D3.js in frontend.
March 2019 - July 2019
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Cybay New Media GmbH, Hanover
A small digital agency based in Hanover where I dealt with the creation of websites, further development of existing websites, as well as the care for existing customers. In addition to PHP, Laravel, Statamic and WordPress, the technologies used include JavaScript, Flow, React for the development of Progressive Web Apps and also React Native for mobile development.
January 2018 - February 2019
Software Developer
ABIAN GmbH, Hanover
Originally hired as a developer for web-based software (e.g. for the Deutsche Messe AG and CeBIT), over time I took over more and more tasks and was responsible for the implementation of responsive websites and mobile apps, from conception to development towards implementation with PHP, JavaScript and CSS with well-known frameworks like Laravel, Angular, React and Bootstrap.
January 2014 - December 2017
Junior Web Developer
eMedienservice Nord, Oldenburg
An agency, a subsidiary of the Nordwest-Zeitung, from which I was taken over after working at QP media GmbH. In addition to the independent development of responsive websites and WordPress theming, my activities also included the programming of NWZonline.de with Java and JavaServer Pages.
August 2013 - December 2013
Junior Web Developer
QP media GmbH, Oldenburg
A small startup, sponsored by Nordwest-Zeitung, which dealt with couponing and printing vouchers. From the first day on I accompanied the startup and developed a well-known, regional coupon platform. Programming languages used included Python (with Django) and JavaScript as well as CoffeeScript with Backbone.js.
October 2011 - July 2013
Education
Hochschule Emden/Leer
Bachelor of Science
Computer Science - Web Development Track
GPA: 2.31
September 2008 - March 2012
Projects
BARMER Design System
React Native, WebComponents, TypeScript
The BARMER Design System is a multi-platform design system with over 100 components that work with React DOM and also React Native. All components are implemented with one single codebase and are adapted for multi-platform support using React Native for Web and offer SSR capibilities. The design system also contains all components as WebComponents that work completely framework-agnostic. I built the whole design system from ground up and implemented every single component with React for 3 platforms, Web, iOS and Android. For the WebComponents I used the great micro-library Atomico. While working on this project I contributed a lot to the React Native community, Emotion, Atomico and also published some own libraries.
February 2020 - Present
iF Design Award Jury App
React Native, Expo, JavaScript, Flow
The iF Design Award Jury App is an internal app, that is used by jurors to rate and comment on product submissions. It's kind of a barcode scanner, where the jurors can scan the barcode of a product submission and then give a rating and/or nominate products for the Design Award. I used React Native and Expo to create the app and used plain JavaScript with Flow type-checking.
December 2018 - February 2019
iF WORLD DESIGN GUIDE
PHP, Laravel, GraphQL, React, JavaScript, Flow, Sass
The iF WORLD DESIGN GUIDE was a product design platform by the iF Design Award. The platform featured 2,400 design studios, about 3,800 company profiles and more than 500,000 products. The platform was implemented with PHP, Laravel and GraphQL on the backend and mostly vanilla JavaScript and Flow type-checking on the frontend, plus some micro-frontends that I later implemented with React. The products and everything was saved in a PostgreSQL database and as the CMS for editorial content I used Statamic, which is a Git-powered flatfile CMS.
January 2017 - February 2019
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
Offline-First, Mobile-First, Responsive Design
Cross Browser/Platform Testing & Debugging
Cross Functional Teams
Agile Development, Scrum & Kanban
Interests
In my free time, I really like to go to concerts, festivals and exhibitions, travel and explore new places on this planet, relax in nature and read news about outer space. I enjoy being at home and spending a large amount of time with exploring the latest technology advancements in the Web Development world.
Also I am running a small online shop together with my wife, who is an artist and tattooist. We are selling clothes and art and like to spend weekends on markets, making people smile.