Benjamin Fleischer
Product Owner Product Manager Consultant at macFUSE
Germany
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Fleischer is a product-focused engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and shipping macOS-native software and developer-facing tooling. As Product Owner/Manager and consultant at macFUSE since 2011 and Project Lead at Synium Software, he combines hands-on systems programming with product strategy to bring user-space file systems and high-performance macOS apps to market. He has deep backend and platform expertise, evidenced by sustained open-source contributions to SSHFS/libfuse where he adapted core filesystem code for macOS compatibility and improved cross-platform stability. Comfortable moving between code, build systems, and customer-facing product decisions, he excels at turning low-level technical constraints into pragmatic product roadmaps. Based in Germany, he pairs long-term stewardship of niche system software with practical delivery experience across mobile and desktop products.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (11)
c1710
macos10
filesystem10
c1110
networking10
fuse10
pthreads9
concurrency9
thread9
posix9
posixct9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
osxfuse/sshfs
Jan 2012 - Jul 2017
File system based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the SSHFS project by modifying and adapting code for macOS compatibility and enhancing existing functionality. They implemented features such as an unnamed semaphore implementation for macOS, updated copyright years, and improved the handling of file attributes. The user also made changes to the build process, improving the functionality and compatibility of SSHFS. Their work focused on adapting and improving the performance of the project on the macOS platform.
fusersyncsshtransfer-protocolfile-transfer
libfuse/sshfs
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributes to the SSHFS project, a network filesystem client. The commits demonstrate a focus on platform-specific adaptations, particularly for macOS, including the addition of unnamed semaphore implementations, and adapting the codebase to work effectively on macOS. The user also addresses bugs and integrates changes from upstream projects. This suggests a role focused on improving the software's compatibility and stability across various platforms.
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