Benjamin Kott
Frontend Developer at TYPO3 GmbH
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kott is a Frontend Developer with 13 years of experience specializing in TYPO3, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and UX-driven design. Based in Düsseldorf, he contributes to the core TYPO3 CMS—fixing backend bugs, optimizing module menus and improving frontend integration—while serving as Developer Advocate at TYPO3 GmbH. He brings full-stack experience from integrating Bootstrap into TYPO3 themes to addressing legacy browser quirks, showing comfort across PHP, CSS/LESS and build tooling like Bower/Grunt. Previously he led R&D and art direction at TeamWFP, blending visual design with pragmatic plugin and e-commerce development for platforms like Shopware and Magento. Known for quietly improving developer and editor workflows, he balances hands-on coding with product-focused UX sensibilities. His career demonstrates a rare combination of long-term CMS stewardship and practical front-end craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Assistent für Betriebsinformatik, Assistent für Betriebsinformatik at Berufskolleg WeselFachhochschule Gelsenkirchen Abt. Bocholt
English, German
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Github Skills (19)
cms10
debug10
bootstrap10
back-end-development10
css10
php10
front-end-development10
typo310
bootstra10
backend10
javascript9
responsive-design9
lessc9
html9
extbase6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminkott/bootstrap_package
Mar 2014 - Dec 2022
Bootstrap Package delivers a full configured theme for TYPO3, based on the Bootstrap CSS Framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 releases, 9 reviews, 1224 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin was involved in integrating Bootstrap into the TYPO3 CMS backend and frontend, indicated by the inclusion of Bootstrap with Bower and Grunt. The user also addressed a bug related to the backend layouts by correctly setting the BackendLayouts columns if PageTs is set via the page record. Furthermore, they updated and added dependencies like jQuery, adding new features with the inclusion of selectivizr to add CSS3 pseudo selector support to IE8.
typo3-cms-extensioncsstypo3sitepackagebootstrap
TYPO3/typo3
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the TYPO3 CMS core, addressing issues related to JavaScript concatenation, bidirectional record relations in the backend, and module menu optimization. The contributions included code changes in PHP, CSS and LESS files. Additionally, the user worked on making the pagination input field work correctly.
cmsmanagement-systemphpsynchronizedtypo3-cms
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