Benjamin Slabbert
Engineering Manager at PPRO
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBenjamin Slabbert is an engineering manager and experienced Java developer with 10 years building cloud-native, scalable backend systems and APIs across finance, health insurance, affiliate marketing, and electronics. He progressed from junior Java roles to senior engineer and team lead positions at CRX Markets, where he helped migrate a legacy JSF UI to React and drove the Receivables Select product to optimize customers' working capital. Comfortable across the full stack, Benjamin has hands-on expertise in Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Docker, and complementary work in Go and frontend React. Now leading engineering at PPRO in Munich, he blends people management with deep technical ownership—often stepping into code reviews, architecture decisions, and infrastructure automation. His engineering background in robotics and embedded system communication informs a pragmatic, systems-level approach to reliability and integration.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronic, Robotics, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronic, Robotics at Stellenbosch UniversityMatric Diploma, Matric Diploma at Piet Retief High School
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
backend9
javac9
cli8
grpc8
golang8
protocol-buffers8
maven8
annotation-processor8
maven-plugin8
maven-extension8
logging8
driver8
rpc8
android8
java8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BenSlabbert/vertx-dagger-native
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 release, 25 PRs, 62 pushes in 11 months
BenSlabbert/vertx-dagger-ui-lib
Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 71 PRs, 182 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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