Benjamin Der Ehe
Senior Software Engineer at Stacks Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Der Ehe is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 13+ years of experience building full-stack web and mobile products, currently focused on frontend and design systems work. He has deep expertise in JavaScript, CSS, HTML and the browser platform, balanced by backend fluency in Python, C# and Go, and a history of shipping high-impact features like Stack Overflow’s chat, markdown toolchain, and a performant tag-suggestion ML algorithm. Comfortable crossing domains, he has moved between engineering, Android development and product management, and served as Stack Overflow’s sole Design Developer to scale unified themes and component libraries. He mentors engineers, runs security and onboarding sessions, and helped formalize product strategy and A/B-driven workflows. Based in Berlin, he blends hands-on implementation with a user-centered mindset and a taste for digging into platform internals when pragmatic solutions are needed. An early Stack Overflow hire, he’s known internally as the go-to person for tricky CSS, JS, web security and regular-expression problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Wirtschaftsmathematik, Wirtschaftsmathematik at Technische Universität Clausthal
German, English, Swedish, French
Stackoverflow
50,466reputation
8.3mreached
270answers
20questions
mysql
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offset
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browser
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max
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regex
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javascript
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Github Skills (77)
postgresql10
python10
ruby10
commonmark10
ember10
javascript10
typescript10
rails10
forum10
discourse10
spec10
css10
mhealth10
flowtype10
frontend10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
balpha/go-unicornify
May 2014 - Apr 2022
Algorithmically generated random unicorn images
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 89 commits in 8 years
unicorn
StackExchange/pagedown
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
The Markdown editor and converter used on Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
exchangestack-overflowstack-exchangesitesmarkdown-editor
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