Benjamin Höglinger-stelzer
CEO & Lead Developer at Nefarius Software Solutions e.U.
Wels, Upper Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Höglinger-stelzer is a hands-on technology leader and CEO with 15 years of experience building infrastructure, DevOps workflows, and low-level Windows software. He combines expertise in Windows device drivers and controller emulation with practical SQL Server administration and systems engineering, having modernized and migrated projects to .NET 5 while improving CI/CD for high-profile open-source peripherals like HidHide and DS4Windows. As an Austrian open-source ambassador, he’s known for automating build-and-release pipelines, code-signing workflows, and performance-focused refactors that bridge user-space services with kernel-level device handling. His background spans consulting, enterprise infrastructure, and running his own software studio, reflecting both operational rigor and product-driven engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to tricky hardware-software integration problems and for shipping signed, production-ready Windows binaries.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
None, Information Technology, None, Information Technology at HTBLA Wels
Github Skills (23)
code-generator10
code-signing10
net10
dotnet10
usb10
wix10
codegen10
cicd10
netframework10
asp-net10
code-generation10
device-driver10
driver10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nefarius/ScpToolkit
Jul 2015 - Nov 2021
Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 1030 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin added documentation and made code modifications to improve the functionality of the dual-shock controller. These changes involve modifying the USB driver to interact with the USB host and updating various enums. The user appears to be working on the low-level aspects of the project.
driverssonywindows-driverwindowscontrollers
nefarius/HidHide
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Gaming Input Peripherals Device Firewall for Windows.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:13 releases, 80 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin focused on automating and streamlining the build and release processes for the HidHide project. Their contributions include modifying build configurations, introducing "Production Release" configurations for signed binaries, and adapting the setup to use artifacts. They also created and modified helper scripts for tasks such as artifact retrieval from AppVeyor and code signing. This work directly improved the project's continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow.
game-controllerwindowsgamingperipheralsbattery-level
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