Ben Rodenhäuser
Senior Software Engineer at Synthesia
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBen Rodenhäuser is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with nine years of professional experience and six years focused on web platforms, known for shipping sophisticated frontend features and leading architecture improvements in complex apps. His background spans creative direction, computer science research, and business consulting, giving him a rare blend of user-centered design sensibility, rigorous problem decomposition, and pragmatic, results-driven delivery. At companies like Pitch and now Synthesia he has driven critical product work across engineering, product, design, and leadership teams, thriving at the intersection of engineering and design. Trained as a researcher (PhD-level study in computer science and an MSc in Logic) and a former co-founder, he excels at disentangling complexity and communicating clear technical trade-offs. He prefers tight-knit teams and challenging problems that stretch his imagination, bringing both craft and cross-disciplinary empathy to product development.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Zwischenprüfung (BA equivalent) Linguistics Computer Science Philosophy, Zwischenprüfung (BA equivalent) Linguistics Computer Science Philosophy at University of TübingenPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of AmsterdamCommunication Design, Communication Design at Hamburg University of Applied SciencesCore Curriculum Software Engineering, Core Curriculum Software Engineering at Launch School
Github Skills (20)
crowd9
rum9
conversations9
react8
clojurescript8
hiccup8
expression-evaluator7
complex-numbers7
vector7
clojure7
mathematical-expressions6
mathematics6
browser6
typescript6
nextjs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benrodenhaeuser/algorithms
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:201 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
benrodenhaeuser/frankie
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:104 commits, 94 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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