Eiko Wagenknecht is a founder and freelance software developer with 14 years of experience building user-focused web applications and tooling from Hanover, Germany. He combines front-end craftsmanship—evident in UI improvements for the widely used openHAB web UI—with backend contributions to fast static-site tooling like Quartz, showing full-stack versatility. As an entrepreneur leading Wagenknecht IT GmbH and a long-term freelancer, he emphasizes software quality, UX and maintainable documentation in every project. His background in business informatics and engineering gives him a pragmatic edge for turning complex requirements into dependable products. An active open-source contributor, he often fixes subtle usability and internationalization issues that improve developer and end-user experience alike. Colleagues know him for tightening UX details that others overlook and for shipping reliable, well-documented solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Informatics, 1.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Informatics, 1.7 at FernUniversität in Hagen
Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil and environmental engineering, 1.5, Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil and environmental engineering, 1.5 at Leibniz Universität Hannover
Contributions:3 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eiko primarily focused on improving the user interface of the openHAB web UI. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to diacritics in search bars and refining the Google Assistant metadata UI. The user also addressed usability issues by sorting popup dialogs and enhancing the visual design of the UI, demonstrating a strong focus on front-end development within the openHAB project. Furthermore, the user corrected documentation and added links to the F7 input docs and material items.
🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:36 reviews, 7 PRs, 49 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eiko primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor feature improvements in the Quartz static site generator. Their work focused on refining core functionality, including frontmatter parsing, table of contents generation, and listing pages, as well as internationalization files for various languages. Additionally, the user addressed documentation improvements, updating plugin documentation, and overall code maintainability by using standard code formatting.
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