Bengt Brodersen
Tech Principal at Jungheinrich Digital Solutions AG & Co. KG
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolBengt Brodersen is a Tech Principal based in the Greater Hamburg Area with 11 years of experience driving digital transformation, system architecture and DevOps across enterprises like Otto, Lufthansa, FreeNow and bonprix. He blends hands-on engineering with agile coaching, leading cloud and CI/CD initiatives while mentoring teams to adopt pragmatic, scalable practices. An active open-source contributor, he improved widely used projects such as MockK (Kotlin mocking) and Testcontainers, tackling deep compatibility and container orchestration issues that benefit JVM and Android test ecosystems. His background spans product, platform and operations roles, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from UX-driven server work to low-level networking in Docker sidecars. Colleagues rely on him to translate strategic goals into resilient, testable systems and to continuously refine tooling that reduces developer friction.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur Abitur, Abitur Abitur at FPS NiebüllBachelor of Applied Science (B.Sc.) Medien-Informatik, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.Sc.) Medien-Informatik at Fachhochschule Wedel
German, English
Stackoverflow
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docker
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Github Skills (35)
kotlin10
integration-testing10
docker10
testing10
firewall10
bash10
docker-compose10
value-objects10
dockers10
iptables10
java10
dataclasses10
javas10
junit10
mocks10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
qoomon/docker-host
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
A docker sidecar container to forward all traffic to local docker host or any other host
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:44 releases, 12 reviews, 145 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Bengt primarily focused on developing and refining the `entrypoint.sh` script within the `docker-host` repository. Their contributions involved configuring and updating iptables rules for port forwarding, initially focusing on gateway detection and then expanding to include port range support and UDP protocol handling. Further improvements included modifying the script to ensure the container stays alive, switching between `tail` and `sleep` to keep the container running.
sidecardocker-imagesidecar-containerconnectiondockerhost
mockk/mockk
May 2021 - Aug 2022
mocking library for Kotlin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Bengt contributed significantly to the `mockk` library, a mocking framework for Kotlin. Their work focused on enhancing the library's support for Kotlin features, including value/inline classes. They addressed compatibility issues with Kotlin 1.5, refactored code for compatibility with Kotlin 1.3, and improved the library's handling of value classes across various parts of the project, including agent and testing modules. Furthermore, the user added support for Android, which enhanced the library's applicability to broader use cases.
matcherunit-testingtestingkotlinmocking
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