Benjamin Denckla
Digital Publishing Software Consultant at Self-employed
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Denckla is a seasoned software engineer and consultant with 11 years of diverse experience building tooling across embedded systems, digital publishing, and CI/CD automation. He combines low-level C++ and real-time signal-processing background with modern Python, JavaScript, Docker, and build automation expertise, having implemented firmware build-and-deploy pipelines and Mac/Windows release flows. As a self-employed consultant he specializes in digital and paper publishing workflows—especially handling complex Unicode and Biblical Hebrew typesetting—and has repeatedly bridged publishing source formats into EPUB/HTML outputs. His work spans academia-caliber rigor (MS from MIT in Media Arts & Sciences) to practical production systems, and he has a knack for turning legacy build scripts into reproducible, containerized pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Media Arts & Sciences, MS, Media Arts & Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAB, Computer Music, AB, Computer Music at Harvard University
English, Spanish, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
opentype9
fonts9
font-editor9
typography9
variable-fonts9
text-rendering9
unicode8
non-latin8
cjk8
gpu7
php7
harfbuzz7
yourls7
windows6
makefile6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bdenckla/codex-index-leningrad
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
bdenckla/MAM-simple
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:196 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 1 month
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