Anna Förster

Web Developer

Professional, experienced web developer with an educational foundation in electrical engineering and strong knowledge of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Drupal and WordPress.
Curious and interested in the benefits that Open Science and Open Source deliver to transparency and accessibility of both data and software. Eager to be an integral part in advancing the digitalisation of public service and charitable organisations by developing clean, sleek, intuitive websites in addition to web services that focus on ease of use.

Projects

Suckysockets

suckysockets on Github | video (2023)

This Ruby-written command line tool allows users to check whether they need a power adapter when travelling from one country to another. It is published as a Ruby gem on rubygems.org

Soladis-Music

soladis-music.net | video (2022)

A Heroku-deployed content management system for music tracks and embedded YouTube videos, frontend and backend built and maintained in Rails 6/JS.
Users can sign up for the website, log in and add music tracks or videos. A single track includes various attributes, such as title, category, image, audio file etc. Tracks can be filtered by category. A video includes the YouTube-Link as well as a multiple autocomplete field for tracks, which are used in the video.
Users assigned the admin role have extended permissions to edit and delete all tracks and videos.

München Gartenbau

muenchen-gartenbau.com (2020)

A Heroku-deployed website for the Munich based landscape gardener Kurt Schneider, consisting of static pages, built and maintained using Rails 6/JS.

Faces in Trees

facesintrees.de (2019)

A Wordpress website for photography with modified CSS.

Sangoro

sangoro on GitHub | video (2019)

A Ruby-programmed tool to modify the exif creation time stamp of images in JPEG or PNG format. The tool is also available as a Ruby gem on rubygems.org

Wuffl

wuffl on Github | video (2018)

Wuffl is a simple, Ruby-written image viewer which allows a user to move an image either to a "Selected" folder or to a "Deleted" folder while viewing it. The tool is also published as a Ruby gem on rubygems.org

Work Experiences

Web Developer

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (ELKB) | 12/2017 - Present

I work in the Intranet team at the IT Department of the ELKB. The intranet is built in Drupal and is used by more than 20,000 users. As part of my job I build new applications, fix bugs in the existing code and support colleagues in using the intranet and the cloud.

  • Develop concepts and build mockups for the next generation of ELKB Intranet
  • Write plugins for the content migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9
  • Migrate content types, workflows and contents from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and Drupal 9
  • Write modules to support migration of the moderation workflow for particular content types
  • Build and maintain new web applications for the ELKB Intranet, e.g. a bulletin board; an image gallery for users to upload and share their photographs with others; a resource where every organisation in the ELKB can upload their role and duties as part of the financial review process
  • Develop and build web forms and workflows for different needs, e.g. onboarding procedures, holiday requests, reimbursement of travel expenses
  • Create screencasts and user manuals for intranet-related tools, applications, webforms and administrative procedures
  • Hold consultation hours for users with questions and issues regarding ELKB Intranet

Systems Engineer

Assystem GmbH | 07/2016 - 11/2017

I worked in the EULYNX Group, which is a European project to standardise railway signalling and control interfaces. My role involved creating SysML applications for a trackside communication device RBC as part of the European Train Control System (ETCS).

  • Wrote model-based requirement specifications for the international railway project EULYNX
  • Generated runnable, SysML-compliant, standalone applications from the model
  • Presented the work results at international EULYNX cluster meetings
  • Consulted Deutsche Bahn AG on the approval-relevant procedure for trackside ETCS equipment and on technical tasks related to ETCS

Founder and Operator

JustGingerBeer | 07/2014 - 05/2016

As a passionate fan of ginger beer I found it tedious to spot and buy this beverage in Germany, since it was barely known here in 2014. So I founded and built justgingerbeer.de - the first online shop in Germany specialised in different types of ginger beer.

  • Planned, organised and built the online shop with Wordpress CMS and WooCommerce plugin
  • Sourced different varieties of ginger beer from various suppliers, processed and shipped customer orders
  • Run the customer support, accounting and marketing

Consultant for System Network Technology - subject area ETCS

DB Netz AG | 05/2010 - 06/2014

DB Netz AG is part of the German national railway company Deutsche Bahn. My role at the company involved contributing to the approval of the European Train Control System (ETCS) by German Railway Authorities.

  • Wrote new technical and operational requirements for the German ETCS specification
  • Conducted technical reviews on safety assessments of operational and technical ETCS scenarios
  • Coordinated the interoperability analysis between German and European ETCS specification