Benedikt Heine
Project Manager - Finance Transformation & Excellence
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedikt Heine is a finance transformation and excellence leader with 12 years of experience blending financial control, SAP-led transformation (S/4HANA, MDG, CFIN, SAC) and automation to drive month-end reliability and strategic forecasting. Based in Hamburg, he progressed from a combined study program to project manager at Bauer Media Group, where he established a group-wide Finance Transformation & Excellence team. He pairs deep finance domain knowledge with a strong engineering mindset—demonstrated by open-source contributions to widely used tooling like Syncthing-GTK, dunst, rsnapshot, i3status and Icinga2—focusing on notifications, testing, CI automation and robust backend improvements. That uncommon mix helps him translate technical integration challenges into executable finance processes and resilient deployments. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a knack for improving stability through automation and thoughtful testing.
12 years of coding experience
A-Levels (Abitur) Languages & PGW (Politics Social Science and Economics), A-Levels (Abitur) Languages & PGW (Politics Social Science and Economics) at Gymnasium LohbrüggeBachelor of Science - BS Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration at Fachhochschule Nordakademie Elmshorn
English, Spanish, Latin
Github Skills (35)
monitoring10
c-language10
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
distributed-systems10
build-system10
c1110
perl10
cicd10
dbus10
c1710
automation10
gtk10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
dunst-project/dunst
Jul 2017 - May 2021
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 395 commits, 141 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benedikt primarily focused on improving the codebase of a notification daemon. Their contributions included implementing a message truncation feature to prevent potential denial-of-service attacks, refactoring and optimizing existing code. They also modernized the project's dependencies by migrating from GTK2 to GTK3 and added tests for the icon functions.
daemonnotificationscustomizablenotification-centernotification
rsnapshot/rsnapshot
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 101 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Benedikt focused on enhancing the build and deployment process, introducing Travis CI support and integrating automation scripts. They added scripts for automated code generation and cleanup, and also refined existing build configurations. Furthermore, they improved the error handling within the backup process by capturing and logging rsync's exit codes. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of automation and build system configurations.
rsyncsourceforgeget-helplistsrsnapshot
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