Benjamin Hagen is a Manager of Test with 13 years' experience blending electrical engineering R&D and hands-on test lab leadership in high-power applications such as power transmission, PV, automotive, robotics and rail systems. He leads type testing and test-lab organization at STÄUBLI, drawing on deep expertise in electrical contacts, connector materials and connection methods developed through project-focused research and product development roles. Comfortable bridging lab, field and product teams, he has run investigations into flexible aluminum cabling and spring-loaded drive behaviors for high-voltage circuit breakers. Benjamin pairs rigorous testing discipline with practical DevOps and cross-platform software contributions—having improved multimedia and packaging tooling in well-known open-source projects like Flutter video_player, PyInstaller and Kivy—bringing a rare mix of hardware test leadership and software/automation savviness. Based in the Basel area and trained at TU Dresden, he is adept at turning complex electrical reliability questions into validated, manufacturable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Elektrotechnik, Master of Science - MS, Elektrotechnik at Technische Universität Dresden
Contributions:56 commits, 17 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Flutter-based video player library, Chewie. Their contributions included bug fixes related to video playback timing and skipping functionality, and also implementing features like starting a video at a specific position. Additionally, the user worked on example code, updating video URLs and removing unnecessary code syntax to maintain code quality and improve the user experience.
Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the development of the rumps library, focusing on user interface enhancements and bug fixes. They implemented the ability to add an "other" button to alerts and added functionality for cut, copy, paste and select all to text fields within the UI. Additionally, the user addressed a potential vulnerability by escaping special characters, expanded functionality for alert windows and added methods to accommodate for system sleep/wake events.
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Benjamin Hagen - Manager Of Test Department at STÄUBLI