Benjamin Niess
Développeur PHP at Web^ID
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolBenjamin Niess is a senior PHP developer based in Lyon with 13 years of professional experience and over a decade building bespoke web platforms that integrate into complex client ecosystems. He excels at bridging technical execution and project leadership—estimating effort, coordinating sprints, reviewing code, and managing CI/CD and incident responses. His background spans agency and freelance work, with notable projects including a property-matching tool for a French bank, custom e‑commerce and intranet systems, and migration/automation scripts across CMSs. Comfortable both as an autonomous contributor and a lead developer, he brings strong organization, rigor, and an eye for performance, scalability, and security. Outside core PHP work he actively broadens his stack through side projects in Node.js, JavaScript frameworks, Java, Unity and IoT, which informs pragmatic full-stack solutions. He also has a track record of teaching and community involvement, having trained students and spoken at WordCamp Paris.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Services et Réseaux de Communication, DUT Services et Réseaux de Communication at IUT de TroyesExpert en ingénierie et management de la communication numérique, Expert en ingénierie et management de la communication numérique at HETIC
French, English
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Github Skills (43)
wordpress-plugin10
post-type10
plugin9
wordpress9
qtwebkit9
xml-sitemap8
opengraph8
html-to-pdf8
php8
yoast8
formidable8
ff8
mailsender8
laravel8
seo8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminniess/recommend-to-a-friend
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
web-id-fr/druid
Apr 2024 - Jun 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 21 reviews, 29 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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