Steffen Eckardt
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSteffen Eckardt is a Principal Software Engineer with over 12 years at Salesforce and a long career building front-end architectures and developer tooling across JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems. He specializes in modern Angular applications, Web Components/LWC, build tooling (Webpack, Rollup, Babel), testing automation and CI-driven quality with Jest, Playwright and Sauce Labs. Known for blending hands‑on coding with technical leadership, he has progressed from senior engineer to principal while shaping large-scale UI platforms and developer workflows. His background spans enterprise ERP and e‑commerce systems through earlier roles, giving him pragmatic product-facing experience beyond pure front-end work. Based in Darmstadt, Germany, he combines deep expertise in RxJS/NgRx patterns with a strong commitment to developer ergonomics and maintainable codebases.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Vordiplom Applied media studies, Vordiplom Applied media studies at Technische Universität IlmenauBachelor of Science Applied computer sciences, Bachelor of Science Applied computer sciences at Fachhochschule Erfurt
German, English
Github Skills (75)
javascript10
lwc10
salesforce10
angular10
foundation10
zap10
typescript10
nodejs10
iframe10
react10
web-developer9
salesforce-lightning9
web-performance9
shadow-dom9
eslint-config9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seckardt/lwc
Sep 2019 - Dec 2023
:zap: LWC - A Blazing Fast, Enterprise-Grade Web Components Foundation
Contributions:21 pushes, 28 branches in 4 years 3 months
blazingweb-componentsenterprise-gradegradefoundation
alexander-heimbuch/component-sandbox
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 months
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