Benjamin Mack
VDC Engineer at American Contracting and Environmental Services
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Mack is a VDC Engineer with 15 years of technical experience blending civil engineering practice and software-focused problem solving across the Washington DC–Baltimore region. He has progressed from field and quality-control roles into project and virtual design coordination on major municipal water and wastewater projects, bringing practical site testing and inspection experience to digital construction workflows. An active open-source contributor and project lead in the TYPO3 CMS ecosystem (including core and Solr integration work), he uniquely pairs back-end development chops—PSR-14 migrations, API simplifications, and search integration fixes—with engineering project delivery. Comfortable translating between legacy systems and modern toolchains, he’s known for improving code consistency and ensuring backward compatibility while streamlining operations. His background suggests an uncommon mix: hands-on civil engineering rigor plus proven leadership in community-driven software projects.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering Technology/Technician at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (24)
cms10
database-api10
back-end-development10
databases10
solr10
php10
typo310
symfony10
symfony-ux10
backend10
database10
refactor9
searching9
refactoring9
command-line-tool9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
TYPO3/typo3
May 2011 - 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:3339 commits, 8 PRs, 20076 pushes in 11 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the back-end of the TYPO3 CMS project by implementing changes related to code deprecations, including creating and migrating to PSR-14 events. The user also contributed to database interactions, such as ensuring the correct usage of language-specific information. Additionally, the user worked on improving code consistency, streamlining log messages, and simplifying various internal APIs within the system.
cmsmanagement-systemphpsynchronizedtypo3-cms
TYPO3-Solr/ext-solr
Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
A TYPO3 extension that integrates the Apache Solr search server with TYPO3 CMS. dkd Internet Service GmbH is developing the extension. Community contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 22 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improving the TYPO3 Solr extension's back-end functionality. Their contributions include adding a string representation to the SolrConnection class, limiting pages to the default language in several repositories, and fixing a bug in the AjaxController related to PSR-7 response compatibility. The user also addressed integration test issues and resolved nested site indexing problems.
cmsdevelopingsolrtypo3-cmstypo3-extension
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