Benjamin Quorning
Staff Engineer at Zendesk
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolBenjamin Quorning is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience, currently shaping backend architecture and developer tooling at Zendesk from Copenhagen. He’s a Ruby on Rails expert who pairs pragmatic engineering with rigorous test automation—evidenced by sustained contributions to high-profile OSS projects like rubocop, rails, rspec-rails and ruby-kafka. Benjamin frequently works at the intersection of code quality and developer experience, improving static analysis, test suites and CI ergonomics while also optimizing library dependencies and performance. His background ranges from web and LaTeX publishing to large-scale product engineering, giving him a rare mix of precision in formatting and deep systems thinking. Colleagues rely on him for hard-to-reproduce bug fixes and for turning brittle tests and tooling into maintainable, high-coverage suites.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
cand.it, Internet Technology, cand.it, Internet Technology at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnRødkærsbro SkoleStudentereksamen, matematisk, Studentereksamen, matematisk at Bjerringbro GymnasiumPortuguese for foreigners, Portuguese for foreigners at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
English, Danish, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (50)
dependency-management10
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
git10
ruby-rails10
test-driven-design10
apidoc10
carrierwave10
rubygems10
testing10
rendering10
app-framework10
rspec10
kafka10
formatter10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rubocop/rubocop-rspec
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
Code style checking for RSpec files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:94 releases, 696 reviews, 545 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the quality and maintainability of the `rubocop-rspec` project. Their commits focused on fixing RuboCop offenses, improving code style, and adding new cops for enforcing specific RSpec best practices, such as testing for `be_nil`. The user also updated documentation and configuration, demonstrating a focus on code quality and adherence to established guidelines. Furthermore, the user fixed specs and implemented features that can be categorized as test automation.
code-stylelintrailstestingruby
rubocop/rubocop
Sep 2013 - Dec 2022
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Code Maintainer
Back-end Developer & Code MaintainerContributions:47 reviews, 207 commits, 131 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the RuboCop project by enhancing its code analysis capabilities, particularly in the areas of Ruby code style and formatting. Their commits involved refactoring and improving existing cops (code analysis rules), such as the `SpaceAroundBlockBraces` and `CommandLiteral` cops, by adding new features, refining code logic, and expanding test coverage. They also worked on increasing performance, and fixing issues.
linterstyle-guidecode-formattercode-analyzerruby
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