Benedikt Sauter
Co-CEO CPO Co-Founder at Shopware
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBenedikt Sauter is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and product leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling business software for e-commerce. As Co-CEO, CPO and co-founder of Xentral he drives a next-generation ERP cloud platform that centralizes marketplaces, payments, shipping and accounting integrations to automate operational work at scale. He previously founded and led embedded projects GmbH and WaWision, blending deep technical roots in system integration with product-driven growth. Based in Augsburg, Benedikt combines formal computer science training (MSc, Diplom) with executive education from Stanford GSB, and sits on Shopware’s supervisory board, reflecting his influence across Germany’s e-commerce infrastructure. Notably, he pairs hands-on engineering sensibility with a CEO’s focus on connectivity and partner ecosystems to turn complex integrations into transparent, scalable workflows.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
dy/dx program, dy/dx program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessFachinformatiker Fachrichtung Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Fachrichtung Systemintegration at Siemens Professional EducationMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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Github Skills (19)
api9
embedded8
coffeescript8
zammad7
javascript7
ruby7
rails7
mhealth6
notebook4
linux4
mono4
fan-control4
dotnet4
warehouse3
windows3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
embeddedprojects/wawision
Sep 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
warehouse
embeddedprojects/gnublin-distribution
Dec 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 10 months
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