Benjamin Slabbert
Team Lead at CRX Markets AG
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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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.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Diploma, Matric Diploma at Piet Retief High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronic, Robotics, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronic, Robotics at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, German
Stackoverflow
511reputation
440kreached
14answers
3questions
Github Skills (90)
dependency-injection9
maven-extension9
maven-plugin9
annotation-processor9
maven9
kotlin9
java9
ram8
backend8
controller8
logging8
driver8
elasticsearch-client8
android8
debugging8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BenSlabbert/vertx-dagger-starter
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:87 releases, 94 PRs, 93 pushes in 10 months
BenSlabbert/byte-buddy-maven-plugin-example
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Providing a simple example of how to use ByteBuddy for compile time bytecode manipulation
Contributions:1 review, 45 PRs, 46 pushes in 10 months
byte-buddybytebuddyjavamavenmaven-plugin
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