Benjamin Behrens
Senior Software Engineer at Paperspace
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Behrens is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 12+ years of experience building cloud-native platforms and performance-focused software. At Paperspace he focuses on core platform engineering—Kubernetes, fast storage, cloud-hypervisor and software-defined networking—to simplify AI application deployment. He has a long history of hands-on development across startups and product shops dating back to the late 1990s, giving him deep systems-level intuition and pragmatic engineering discipline. Benjamin contributes to open-source multimedia tooling, notably optimizing a JavaScript H.264 decoder by introducing web workers and removing dependencies to boost real-time decoding performance. Colleagues describe him as self-driven and practical, able to turn complex distributed systems problems into maintainable solutions. He brings a rare combination of low-level performance tuning and cloud infrastructure experience that speeds time-to-production for AI workloads.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
deco10
javascript10
webworker10
decode10
decoder10
h26410
html6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mbebenita/Broadway
Mar 2015 - Jul 2022
A JavaScript H.264 decoder.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 63 commits, 23 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily worked on enhancing the `broadway` project, which is a JavaScript H.264 decoder, focusing on optimizations and the integration of web workers. They refactored the code to remove unnecessary dependencies and improve performance by leveraging worker threads for faster decoding. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements to provide better user feedback, and also updated the demo pages.
javascriptdecoder
soliton4/promiseland
Mar 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:117 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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