Benjamin Milde
Senior Software Entwickler In at Kobrakai Benjamin Milde
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Milde is a Senior Software Entwickler based in Augsburg with 12 years of experience bridging design and web engineering, from wireframes and visual design to frontend and backend implementation. With a design degree and a background as a freelancer and founder of made it GmbH, he blends product sensibility with hands-on skills in Vue, Svelte, Alpine, PHP/ProcessWire and Elixir/Phoenix. He contributes to prominent open-source Elixir projects—including Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView, Plug, Ecto and core Elixir—where his work ranges from bug fixes and docs to compiler and framework improvements that bolster reliability and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across the full delivery pipeline, he also handles basic CI/CD and ops tasks, making him effective in small teams or lead roles. Colleagues know him for pragmatic multi-discipline problem solving and the uncommon combination of production-grade backend contributions alongside pixel-aware frontend craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mediadesign, 1.4, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mediadesign, 1.4 at Mediadesign - Hochschule für Design und Informatik
German, English
Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
programming-language10
erlang10
web-application10
api-design10
elixir10
routers10
testing10
router10
exunit10
compiler-compiler10
api10
phoenix-liveview10
routes10
gleam10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix_html
Dec 2016 - Jun 2022
Building blocks for working with HTML in Phoenix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Phoenix HTML library. Their contributions included bug fixes related to form generation, specifically addressing issues with radio buttons and string keys within forms. Furthermore, they improved the data-confirm behavior, making it configurable and extendable, along with updating the documentation. These changes improved the usability and robustness of the library.
elixir-lang/ex_doc
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
ExDoc produces HTML and EPUB documentation for Elixir projects
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to improving the documentation generation process for Elixir projects. They added features to group modules and extras, implemented focus trapping for modal dialogs, and improved the formatting of the documentation. Additionally, they addressed styling issues by updating CSS rules, and addressed cleanup issues.
elixirepubexdoc
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