Benjamin Fleischer
Product Owner Product Manager Consultant at Synium Software
Germany
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Fleischer is a Germany-based product owner, product manager and consultant with 14 years of experience who bridges hands-on systems engineering and product leadership. At macFUSE and as project lead for Screenium he combines deep macOS platform expertise with product delivery, turning low-level filesystem and media-engineering work into polished user-facing features. An active open-source contributor to SSHFS/libfuse, he has driven macOS compatibility work—including implementing platform-specific primitives such as an unnamed semaphore—and improved build and file-attribute handling for network filesystems. With a background as a senior mobile developer, he fluently connects mobile and desktop engineering concerns to practical product requirements. He’s known for translating kernel/user-space complexity into pragmatic roadmaps that shipping teams can execute.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
file-systems10
macos10
file-system10
c1110
networking10
fuse10
pthreads9
concurrency9
threads9
posix9
posixct9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
osxfuse/sshfs
Jan 2012 - Jul 2017
File system based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the SSHFS project by modifying and adapting code for macOS compatibility and enhancing existing functionality. They implemented features such as an unnamed semaphore implementation for macOS, updated copyright years, and improved the handling of file attributes. The user also made changes to the build process, improving the functionality and compatibility of SSHFS. Their work focused on adapting and improving the performance of the project on the macOS platform.
fusersyncsshtransfer-protocolfile-transfer
libfuse/sshfs
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributes to the SSHFS project, a network filesystem client. The commits demonstrate a focus on platform-specific adaptations, particularly for macOS, including the addition of unnamed semaphore implementations, and adapting the codebase to work effectively on macOS. The user also addresses bugs and integrates changes from upstream projects. This suggests a role focused on improving the software's compatibility and stability across various platforms.
sftpsshfilesystemscp
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