Benjamin Nielsen
Co-founder & CTO at Coana
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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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
rest9
cli9
command-line-interface9
security9
swagger9
livereload9
rest-api9
asana-api9
css-library9
contentful9
react-bootstrap9
swagger-ui8
callgraph8
socket8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
barslev/redux-logic
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 90 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
coana-tech/jelly
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
JavaScript/TypeScript static analyzer for call graph construction, library usage pattern matching, and vulnerability exposure analysis
Contributions:49 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
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