Benjamin Hedrich
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Botanicly GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarBenjamin Hedrich is a senior lead software engineer and entrepreneur based in Berlin with 16 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams. He co-founded Botanicly and served as its CTO, and today combines hands-on engineering leadership at Stuffle GmbH with running his own holding company. A long-time contributor to open-source—most notably improving pytest-django’s compatibility across Django versions and custom user models—he brings practical testing and integration expertise to production codebases. Benjamin is comfortable shipping pragmatic solutions across startups and scale-ups, with a track record that spans product-facing roles and developer tooling improvements. Colleagues know him for focusing on robust, maintainable backends and for a no-nonsense approach to outreach and professional boundaries.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
pytest10
python10
plugin10
django10
testing10
databases8
database8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pytest-dev/pytest-django
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
A Django plugin for pytest.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the pytest-django plugin by adding features and expanding Django compatibility. They added a function to get the Django version, which was then used to avoid code duplication and streamline tests. The user also added support for custom user models introduced in Django 1.5, including fixtures and test environments. These changes enhanced the plugin's ability to interact with different Django versions and custom user model configurations.
pythondjangopython3pytest-pluginpytest
bh/atom-python-isort
May 2014 - Oct 2016
Atom.io plugin to sort Python imports
Contributions:29 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 5 months
atompythonsortimports
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