Benjamin Wohlwend
Senior Software Developer Engineer at Liip
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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RockstarBenjamin Wohlwend is a Senior Software Developer Engineer based in Zurich with 19 years of experience building and refining web applications, primarily with Django. At Liip he blends hands-on backend engineering with developer-focused improvements, shipping features and dependency updates that keep projects robust and modern. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable contributions to django-cms—adding language fallbacks, modernizing editors and JS libraries—and improved developer experience and core logic in django-shop through documentation and backend refactors. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often targets migration pain points and template/inheritance issues that quietly reduce long-term maintenance costs. Hacker by day (and asleep at night), he combines deep technical craft with a knack for clear documentation that accelerates team onboarding and collaboration.
19 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (32)
debugging10
cms10
python10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
django10
sphinx10
signal10
documentation10
mysql9
image9
javascript9
jquery9
forms9
windows9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/django-cms
Jun 2009 - Apr 2015
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the django-cms project by implementing new features and updating dependencies. They introduced a new option to enable language fallbacks, modifying the core views and settings to support this functionality. The user also updated the WYMEditor dependency to version 0.5rc1, incorporating the latest JavaScript and CSS files. Furthermore, the user updated the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries, and the related CSS, to be the Cupertino theme. They also improved the migration process and fixed the the template inheritance.
cmspythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-cms
awesto/django-shop
Jul 2011 - Mar 2013
A Django based shop system
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Backend Developer
Technical Writer & Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation, adding detailed explanations and examples using Sphinx markup, including how-to guides and signals documentation. Alongside documentation, the user made changes to the backend, notably modifying the order creation process, adding cart and order objects to the processing signal, and refactoring models. The contributions reflect a focus on improving developer experience and internal system logic.
pythondjango-shopdjangoe-commerceshop
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