Benjamin Seibel
Director at Technologiestiftung Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Seibel is a director and founder of CityLAB Berlin, where he leads a 45‑person interdisciplinary team building AI and civic tech products that are deployed at municipal scale. Over the past decade he has shipped practical systems—such as an AI assistant used by 13,000+ civil servants, a RAG search for 20,000+ parliamentary documents, and an open-source urban platform with 11,000+ active users—while growing teams and embedding data practices inside government. He bridges technology, public policy, and organizational change, with deep public‑sector expertise in procurement, regulation, and stakeholder management. A trained philosopher and historian of science, he combines scholarly rigor with product‑level delivery and public engagement (including a regular column and a long‑running podcast). He is particularly focused on responsible AI in institutions and on making complex bureaucracies actually work better with software and data.
11 years of coding experience
Technischen Universität DarmstadtDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, History of Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History of Science at Harvard UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Kulturwissenschaft, Master of Arts - MA, Kulturwissenschaft at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Github Skills (27)
open-data9
github8
prototyping8
climate-change8
git8
react7
javascript6
patch6
ecosystem6
subversion4
boilerplate3
crawler3
nodejs3
crawling2
firefox-addon2
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bnjmnsbl/bnjmnsbl.github.io
Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:20 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
bnjmnsbl/visualinterventions
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:157 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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