Benjamin Pannier
CTO Interim Risk & Compliance at Hawk
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Pannier is a seasoned CTO and product executive with over 20 years of experience architecting and scaling transactional platforms across payments, open banking, email security and digital mapping. He has led large, geographically distributed engineering organizations—driving product-led revenue growth at Tide and Zalando, modernizing stacks and compliance at Token, and consolidating platforms at PayU—while consistently delivering high-availability systems in regulated environments. A hands-on founder and early technical lead, he bootstrapped an email-security business to $40M ARR and pioneered ML-driven anti-fraud and security solutions long before they were mainstream. Known for marrying technical rigor with clear, empathetic leadership, he excels at transforming payments from cost centers into strategic revenue engines. Outside work he channels curiosity and resilience into solo motorbike expeditions and deep technical diving, reflecting a taste for high-stakes problem solving both on and off the clock.
10 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Github Skills (14)
python9
raspberry-pi9
iot9
upnp8
mqtt8
home-automation8
asyncio7
internet-of-things7
obsidian6
input-field5
plugin5
javascript3
typescript2
flip-clock1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bpannier/simpletr64
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Simple TR64 UPnP: A simple way to talk to your UPnP and/or TR64 protocol devices
Contributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years
upnp
bpannier/Home-Center-2
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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