Benjamin Satzger
Principal Software Engineer at Ubicloud
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Satzger is a Principal Software Engineer based in Munich with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade-spanning career bridging academia and industry. He has led database and cloud engineering efforts at Microsoft (Azure PostgreSQL, SQL Server), Snowflake, and now Ubicloud, bringing deep expertise in scalable data systems and production-grade reliability. His background includes postdoctoral research and an assistant professorship, underscoring a strong foundation in research-driven problem solving and published scholarship. Benjamin combines hands-on implementation skills with architectural leadership, often translating advanced research into practical cloud services. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between low-level database internals and high-level cloud platform design, favoring robust, measurable outcomes. Outside of product roles he maintains an active academic footprint, which informs his pragmatic but innovative approach to complex system design.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Augsburg
Github Skills (32)
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postgresql10
linux10
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ruby10
graphdb10
citus10
scale10
sql10
database-cluster10
distributed-database10
hosting10
multi-tenant10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ubicloud/terraform-provider-ubicloud
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Terraform provider for Ubicloud
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 months
infrastructure-as-codeterraformterraform-providerubicloud
ubicloud/hostedgpt
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:22 pushes in 2 months
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