Benjamin Buchfink
TechLead Senior Software Developer at Software-Schmiede Vogler & Hauke GmbH
Backnang, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Buchfink is a TechLead and Senior Software Developer with over a decade of experience at Software-Schmiede Vogler & Hauke, specializing in developer tools, DevOps, integrations with third-party systems and cloud services, and UI development for core products. He regularly scouts, evaluates and introduces new technologies to improve internal processes and operational efficiency, while maintaining several smaller products end-to-end. Benjamin contributes to notable open-source tooling—helping harden cross-platform shell prompt components by improving battery, Plastic SCM and Windows WiFi segments—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on reliability and platform interoperability. Based in Backnang, Germany, he combines a Wirtschaftsinformatik background from DHBW Stuttgart with hands-on engineering and leadership to translate complex customer workflows into maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik at DHBW Stuttgart
English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (11)
go10
ws-api10
winapi10
wp-api10
wifi9
error-handling9
powershell7
bash7
golang6
git6
testing5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the project by refactoring the battery information retrieval functionality to handle potential errors more robustly. They added and improved the Plastic SCM segment, including adding a segment, refactoring the code, and fixing reported issues. Furthermore, they added a new segment to read WiFi state using Windows-native methods.
unicornsstarshipshellconemuzsh
KhaosCoders/VSCodeBlockEndTag
Jul 2016 - Oct 2021
A VisualStudio 2015, 2017 and 2019 extension. It adds an end tag to each code block with information about the header / condition
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 5 years 3 months
headervscodevscode-extensionvscode-plugincode-block
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