Benedikt Werner
Software Engineer at QAware GmbH
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBenedikt Werner is a software engineer with 10 years of experience based in Garching bei München, currently working at QAware GmbH. He contributes regularly to well-known open source projects—improving documentation for SaltStack, hardening encoding detection in GCHQ’s CyberChef, and enhancing frontend UX in lichess components—demonstrating a blend of backend, frontend and technical writing skills. His contributions show attention to detail, from fixing FEN parsing and UCI notation in scalachess to refining Base85 regexes and interactive code-block rendering in mdBook. Comfortable across Java, Scala, TypeScript and Rust ecosystems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with quality-driven maintenance and testing. As a former programming tutor at TUM and an intern at SUSE, he combines hands-on mentorship with real-world system integrations.
10 years of coding experience
Informatik, Informatik at Technische Universität München
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css10
user-manual10
configuration-management10
typescript10
basics10
writers10
java10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
lichess-org/lila
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:141 reviews, 830 commits, 369 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Benedikt primarily contributed to the UI of the Lichess platform. They focused on enhancing the presentation of blunder annotations by refining their appearance using TypeScript and SVG. Additionally, they added the 'download' attribute to various links, including PGN downloads for games and chapters in studies.
gamefunctional-programmingplay-frameworknon-profittype-safe
lichess-org/chessground
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Mobile/Web chess UI for lichess.org
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Benedikt primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the chessground project. Their contributions centered on improving the visual presentation and responsiveness of the chessboard UI, fixing overflow issues within custom SVG elements, and ensuring proper board alignment and aspect ratio. These changes included refactoring CSS for visual consistency and updating Javascript code for precise positioning, indicating a dedication to refining the user experience. Furthermore, the developer addressed compatibility and optimization issues, such as fixing the ResizeObserver for Typescript.
reactjavascriptmobile-weblichesstypescript
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