Benjamin Winkler
Full Stack Engineer Technical Consultant at Freelance
Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Winkler is a pragmatic full stack engineer and technical consultant with 12+ years of professional experience and a 15+ year programming history spanning backend, frontend, devops, and scaling. He specializes in Node.js and Vue.js full-stack architecture, building internal tools and automations for small and mid-sized companies while advising on product and technical strategy. As a former CTO and co-founder who operated a SaaS and led ad-tech engineering, he combines startup hustle with production-grade engineering rigor. Benjamin is an active open-source contributor—his work on electron/asar added practical features like programmatic package creation and symlink support—illustrating a focus on robust tooling. Based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he seeks high-impact roles at early-stage startups where he can turn ambiguous problems into shipping systems. Colleagues describe him as solution-oriented with a knack for simplifying complex workflows.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
none, Applied computer science, none, Applied computer science at University of Duisburg-Essen
German, English
Github Skills (13)
archiver10
filesystem10
nodejs10
javascript10
archiving10
coffeescript10
electron10
fileio10
archives10
file-manipulation10
testing10
coder8
metric8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
electron/asar
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the `asar` archive format library by adding and modifying core functionalities. They implemented features such as callbacks for creating packages, which allowed for programmatic package creation and improved flexibility. They also fixed bugs, such as a typo in a function name and incorrectly placed callbacks, and improved the codebase by incorporating code style changes and missing variable declarations. Furthermore, the user added the 'extract all' command and support for symlinks during the extraction.
electronpicklejavascriptindexingasar
flosse/sloc
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
simple tool to count SLOC (source lines of code)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to improving the project's CoffeeScript code, adding support for "iced-coffee-script" and making several related updates. They fixed a bug related to comment handling in CoffeeScript, addressing an issue with interpolated strings. Additionally, the user wrote and improved tests, including tests for different languages and their respective features.
count-tosloclineslines-of-codejavascript
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