Benjamin Eberlei
Founder at Tideways GmbH
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Benjamin Eberlei is a founder and seasoned PHP engineer with 17 years of experience building developer tools, performance monitoring, and backend systems from Bonn, Germany. He founded Tideways, a PHP performance monitoring and profiling company, and is a long-time Doctrine core member and regular contributor to Symfony components and other major PHP projects. His work spans deep backend engineering, database and tooling expertise (Doctrine DBAL/ORM, migrations, cache, inflector) as well as practical DevOps and CI improvements for performance-sensitive environments. Notably, he contributes across the full stack—from a jQuery rich-text editor to PHP profiler integrations like XHGui and Tideways—showing a rare mix of low-level profiling, library design, and UX-minded frontend fixes. With a master’s in economics, he blends analytical rigor with pragmatic software craftsmanship and a track record of improving maintainability and observability in open source ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Economics, Master’s Degree Economics at The University of Bonn
English, German
Github Skills (133)
dependency-management10
benchmark10
package-management10
annotations10
testing10
command-line-interface10
databases10
abstraction10
symfony-console10
phpunit10
mappings10
data-transformation10
richtextfx10
persistence10
symfony-ux10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/deprecations
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Thin library around different deprecation strategies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 51 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the development of a deprecation management library. Their initial work focused on creating the core `Deprecation` class, which includes methods for triggering and managing deprecation notices. They implemented different strategies for handling deprecations, such as using `trigger_error` and PSR-3 loggers. Furthermore, they added functionalities like deduplication, temporary ignoring of deprecations, and features to handle deprecations from specific packages or based on version.
thinthin-librarydeprecation
doctrine/inflector
Dec 2011 - Apr 2021
Doctrine Inflector is a small library that can perform string manipulations with regard to uppercase/lowercase and singular/plural forms of words.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the `doctrine/inflector` library. Their commits include code changes focused on proxy names, refactoring proxy interfaces, and debugging utilities. They also made minor style fixes and updated the license information. The contributions involved modifying core class utilities and reflection services.
singularpluralplural-formsstringlowercase
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