Benjamin Erb
Developer Relations
Blaustein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Erb is a research-focused computer scientist with 15 years’ experience designing data-intensive and distributed systems, currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University. He specializes in stream-oriented, history-aware platforms—using techniques like event sourcing—to enable temporal processing and scalable handling of evolving graph structures. Benjamin bridges computer science and psychology, investigating both technical privacy-preserving mechanisms for open research data and the psychological drivers of users’ privacy decisions. His work combines rigorous platform architecture with empirical sensitivity to confidentiality tensions in open science, making him adept at translating interdisciplinary research questions into practical system designs. Based in Blaustein, Germany, he brings deep academic experience from doctoral and long-term research roles at Ulm University, with a knack for applying theoretical insights to real-world, privacy-sensitive data processing challenges.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science at Ulm University
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (32)
visualization9
java9
concurrent-programming9
spring-boot9
gtfs9
metadata-management9
angular8
pdf8
epub8
darktable7
latex7
readable7
human-readable7
metadata6
documents5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
berb/rest-talk-uulm
Nov 2011 - Dec 2013
Contributions:31 commits in 2 years 1 month
UlmApi/livemap
Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
Real-time visualization of public transportation based on parsed GTFS data sets.
Contributions:37 commits in 1 year
gtfsvisualization
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