Benjamin Strasser
Co-Founder CEO at Ahead of Time Software
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolBenjamin Strasser is a software engineer and entrepreneur with six years of experience, currently co-founder and CEO of Ahead of Time Software in Vienna. He brings a hands-on background in backend and DevOps, contributing to notable open-source projects like dagger by improving the Node.js SDK, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime support for Bun. Previously a senior engineer and technical lead at iteratec, he focused on blockchain architectures, CI/CD, and led the DecentraVote initiative for decentralized anonymous e-voting. He also taught anonymization and zero-knowledge topics at FH Technikum Wien, reflecting a deep interest in privacy-preserving technologies. Benjamin pairs academic training in software design and engineering with pragmatic product-building skills, often bridging research-grade crypto concepts to production-ready systems. Colleagues value him for shipping robust infrastructure improvements and for quietly improving developer workflows behind the scenes.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MSc Software Design and Engineering, Master of Science - MSc Software Design and Engineering at FH Campus Wien | University of Applied Sciences
German, English
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
error-handling10
nodejs10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
cicd10
testing10
dockers9
container9
go9
docker9
bun8
agent5
workflow-engine5
ai4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dagger/dagger
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
An open-source runtime for composable workflows. Great for AI agents and CI/CD.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 6 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Node.js SDK, implementing error handling, and improving the codebase. They also worked on the project's CI/CD pipeline, specifically bumping the Node.js base image versions for testing and adding support for the Bun runtime. Furthermore, they introduced tests for runtime detection and updated the test suite for the typescript SDK.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcontinuous-testingbuildkitdeployment
benjaminstrasser/dagger
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 months
containersgithubactionsdevopsconcoursedocker
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