Benjamin Nielsen
Co-founder & CTO at Aarhus Universitet
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolBenjamin Nielsen is a co-founder and CTO with 11 years of experience bridging program analysis research and product-focused engineering to improve developer productivity. He earned a PhD in static program analysis from Aarhus University and turned his dissertation work on JavaScript bug detection, automated update handling, and reachability-enhanced SCA into Coana, a startup that cuts irrelevant SCA alarms by up to 95%. Benjamin balances academic rigor—continuing as a postdoc and longtime teaching assistant—with product leadership, shipping practical analysis tooling for security engineers. Based in Central Denmark, he combines a systems-level view of compilers, type analysis, and software composition with a relentless obsession for efficiency and automation. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate deep static-analysis techniques into measurable productivity gains for real-world developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD Program analysis, PhD Program analysis at Aarhus UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Aarhus Universitet
Github Skills (200)
swagger-editor10
swagger-ui9
swagger9
livereload9
rest-api9
advertising9
mongoose9
rest9
css-library9
react-bootstrap9
reactstrap9
contentful9
api8
asana-api8
facebook-chat8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
barslev/redux-logic
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 90 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
cs-au-dk/jalangilogger
Mar 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 6 years
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