Benjamin Serfhos
Research Software Engineer at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Rozenburg, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBenjamin Serfhos is a Research Software Engineer and certified TYPO3 Integrator/Developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining backend-focused web applications and CMS platforms. Based in Rozenburg, Netherlands, he combines deep PHP and TYPO3 expertise with practical skills in Laravel, DevOps automation and SEO to improve usability and operational reliability. He has a long track record at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he moved from software developer to research software engineer, and he continues to consult and freelance through Serfhos.com. An active contributor to the core TYPO3 repository, Benjamin’s contributions focus on robust backend fixes—data validation, flexform behavior and insertion logic—that quietly improve developer and editor workflows. His background in media technology and iterative, client-facing development informs a pragmatic approach to making complex CMS systems more usable.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mediatechnology, Bachelor, Mediatechnology at Hogeschool RotterdamIT Management, Software Modeling, IT Management, Software Modeling at Albeda College
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
backend10
content-management10
back-end-development10
typo310
data-handling9
caching6
laravel6
extbase6
realurl6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TYPO3/typo3
Sep 2013 - Aug 2020
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the TYPO3 core, focusing on the backend and data handling aspects of the CMS. Their work involved improving code logic by implementing `instanceof` comparisons, allowing root-level record insertions, and adjusting flexform functionality. They also addressed issues related to data validation and display conditions within the TYPO3 backend.
content-management-systemtypo3cmsphpcontent-management
koninklijke-collective/koning_bootstrap_carousel
May 2017 - Sep 2019
TYPO3 Extension: Bootstrap carousel
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
typo3bootstraptypo3-extensioncarousel
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