Marco Steinhaeuser
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMarco Steinhaeuser is a Community Specialist and DevRel with 14 years of experience building and nurturing developer ecosystems for open source e-commerce platforms. Based in Leipzig, he has led community strategy and developer relations at Shopware and now OSS Flywheel, helping startups and nonprofits grow traction and monetize open source products. His background includes deep hands-on work with OXID eShop—contributing accessibility and maintainability improvements to the codebase—which reflects a practical blend of technical empathy and community advocacy. Known for moving between support, community guidance, and strategic DevRel roles, he bridges user needs and engineering priorities to create sustainable, inclusive communities.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
German, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
php10
ecommerce10
shopware6
staging6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OXID-eSales/oxideshop_ce
May 2013 - Feb 2021
OXID eShop CE component
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 26 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Marco's primary contribution involved modifying the e-commerce platform's setup routine by replacing CSS areas with images, improving accessibility for color-blind users. They also standardized code by replacing quotes with single quotes and escaping those where needed. Further modifications include merging branches and refactoring language files to move keys to their appropriate locations, enhancing code maintainability and organization. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality, accessibility, and maintainability within the OXID eShop platform.
ecommercephpoxid-eshopoxid-eshop-componentoxid
OXIDprojects/translate-oxid
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
test for translations
Contributions:2 PRs, 210 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
translationlocalizationtranslationsi18n
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