Benjamin Kurczyk
Director Of Data Architecture And Engineering
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kurczyk is a Director of Data Architecture and Engineering based in Munich with 11 years of experience building large-scale, real-time data platforms across media, automotive and banking. He combines hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka, Spark, Scala and NoSQL with leadership roles that progressed from principal engineer to enterprise data architecture at Sky Deutschland. Comfortable operating between code and strategy, he has led teams, shipped Scala-driven streaming solutions and acted as a development lead on the Scala compiler’s documentation tooling. His background includes real-time crypto and monitoring systems, Hadoop-era big data consulting for DAX companies, and freelance consulting that keeps him close to implementation details. Known for tackling problems that exceed classic storage models, he bridges pragmatic engineering with architectural vision to enable data-driven business decisions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Economic Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Economic Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
scala-compiler10
jvm-languages10
functional-programming10
scala10
object-oriented-programming9
html8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scala/scala
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Scala 2 compiler and standard library. Scala 2 bugs at https://github.com/scala/bug; Scala 3 at https://github.com/scala/scala3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the ScalaDoc tool within the Scala compiler and standard library repository. Their work involved cleaning up and refactoring the code, simplifying syntax, and adjusting mutable map handling to incorporate 2.13 deprecations. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to HTML escaping within string literals, ensuring proper rendering of code blocks in the documentation. They also added functionality for expanding the Linear Subtypes and Known Subclasses section.
functional-programmingobject-oriented-programmingscala-libraryscala-programming-languagestandard-library
DerHexer17/HVS
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 21 pushes in 3 months
android-apphvsandroid
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