
LGE Energy Berlin GmbH // Zenstrom
Website and Service Portal for Zenstrom
Freelance Web Developer and Product Engineer
Relevance
Why this case matters
This framing makes the decision signal explicit: impact, proof, fit, and AI / delivery relevance for hiring or collaboration.
System impact
Independently built and operated the website and service portal with Astro, React/Svelte, PWA, Lumenaza API, auth, ArangoDB, AWS SNS, Woodpecker CI, tests, and operations.
AI / delivery relevance
AI-native systems craft needs clean web, data, and integration boundaries. This work strengthened the foundations that later automation can build on.
Proof
2 products
Website + service portal
Auth + API
Portal functions
CI/CD
Operations
Especially relevant for
- For teams that treat modern web and portal architecture as more than a frontend topic.
- For product organizations that want technical choices connected early to delivery and operations.
Case context
Overview
Zenstrom needed more than a marketing website. It needed a usable service portal for real customer workflows. I independently built and operated the public website and authenticated service portal as two Astro products with React/Svelte, PWA capabilities, ArangoDB, the Lumenaza API, and AWS SNS.
The important part was connecting product surface, integrations, and operations: tariff calculator, registration, login, password flow, customer data, invoices, meter readings, and portal communication had to work together reliably. Woodpecker CI, Vitest, Cypress, Ackee, Bugsnag, and clear deployments kept quality and runtime behavior visible.
Responsibility
Activities
- Website: Astro SSR/CSR, tariff calculator, registration flow, SEO, sitemap, robots.txt, and performance work
- Service portal: Auth flow, password reset, customer data, invoices, meter readings, and active contract checks
- Integrations: Lumenaza API, ArangoDB, AWS SNS, Slack notifications, Ackee analytics, and HubSpot-adjacent flows
- Operations: Woodpecker CI, staged deployments, Traefik, monitoring, error notification, and portal noindex rules
- Built-in quality: Vitest, Cypress E2E, form validation, API error handling, and security-relevant password hashes with Argon2
Operating mode
Methodology
- Product and operations together: Treat website, service portal, API integration, and deployment as one product system
- Kanban as a visibility model: Keep work, blockers, and next decisions inspectable
- Built-in quality: Bring tests, performance work, password hashing, error handling, and noindex rules into delivery early
- Keep architecture decisions small: separate codebases, clear portal boundaries, and direct integrations only where they carry product value
- Knowledge transfer: Treat documentation, maintenance recommendations, and client training as part of handover readiness
Technical context
Technology stack
The tools are not the point by themselves. What matters is which system layers had to work together.
Frontend
10Databases & Storage
5Messaging & Event Streaming
1Backend
5Tools
6Practices
2CI/CD & Delivery Pipelines
2DevOps
3Data & AI
1Next step
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