Sönke Kluth
Senior Developer Front-End Engineer Consultant at soenkekluth.de
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSönke Kluth is a senior front-end engineer and consultant based in Berlin with 12+ years building full-stack JavaScript applications and mobile experiences, currently focused on freelance React/Redux and Node projects. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship (React, React Native, performance tuning) with backend and DevOps skills (Node.js, SQL/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, CI/CD), enabling end-to-end delivery and architecture guidance. His background ranges from lead roles at agencies like Razorfish to long-running independent practice, and he teaches and writes—evidence of strong communication and mentorship. An active open-source contributor, he modernized the popular vanilla-tilt.js library into an ES6 module and optimized its build/deploy pipeline, showing attention to developer ergonomics and web performance.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Medieninformatik, Diplom, Medieninformatik at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)Vordiplom, Sozialpädagogik / Soziale Arbeit, Vordiplom, Sozialpädagogik / Soziale Arbeit at HSB Hochschule Bremen – City University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (12)
babel610
babeljs10
s610
javascript10
vanilla-javascript10
rollupjs10
standard-library10
babel-core10
build29
build-time9
build-engine9
buildx9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
micku7zu/vanilla-tilt.js
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
A smooth 3D tilt javascript library.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sönke's primary contribution involved setting up the project structure, including package management, build scripts, and deployment configurations. They converted the core `vanilla-tilt.js` library into an ES6 module, enabling more modern JavaScript practices. The user also worked on bundling the library and minifying it for distribution, demonstrating a focus on build processes and optimization for web delivery.
javascript-librarytilt-javascriptsmooth-animationswebgljavascript
soenkekluth/device.js
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 10 months
useragentadaptiveclient-side
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