Benjamin Degenhart
Open Source Sabbatical
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Degenhart is a semantic technology consultant and knowledge engineer with 12 years of experience building Linked Open Data, knowledge graphs and ontologies for public sector and research projects. Currently on an Open Source Sabbatical with the City of Munich and co-founder of FörderFunke, he blends hands-on engineering with civic-minded product work that helps citizens discover benefits and funding opportunities. His background includes roles at DigitalService, Adobe and ETH Zürich where he led open-source initiatives and developed backend services and validators for DCAT-AP.de and other open-data standards. Comfortable across C++, Java, Python and semantic web stacks, he repeatedly translates domain knowledge into practical SPARQL-driven solutions and validators. Based in Berlin, he pairs academic rigor from a scientific computing degree with entrepreneurial drive and a consistent focus on sustainability and public impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) [not completed], Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) [not completed], Computational Science and Engineering at Technical University of MunichKaospilot [not completed], Business Design, Project Management, Process Design, Leadership, Kaospilot [not completed], Business Design, Project Management, Process Design, Leadership at KAOSPILOTTechnische Fachhochschulreife, Technics, Technische Fachhochschulreife, Technics at Fachoberschule Landsberg am LechBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Scientific Computing, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Scientific Computing at Hochschule München University of Applied SciencesDiploma [not completed], Bioinformatics, Diploma [not completed], Bioinformatics at Fachhochschule Weihenstephan Freising
German, English
Stackoverflow
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121reached
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Github Skills (200)
monetary10
backend10
wallet10
javascript10
browser10
backend-api10
api10
firefox10
google-cardboard10
browser-extension10
opera10
brave10
growl10
android10
react-native10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminaaron/BattleshipAI
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:99 commits, 12 PRs, 101 pushes in 4 months
termfranzdeep-learningmachine-learningsummer
Citizen-Knowledge-Graph/matching-engine
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:155 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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