Benjamin Wöster
Software Developer at KUKA Deutschland GmbH
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Wöster is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of hands-on experience in Java and C++, currently building cloud-native systems at KUKA in Augsburg. His background spans industrial automation and payment systems, pairing low-level C++ engineering with modern microservices and AI-focused architectures. An active open-source contributor, he improved test isolation and configuration flexibility in the widely used Yii2 PHP framework, showing attention to robustness beyond his primary stacks. Benjamin blends pragmatic engineering with system-level thinking, aspiring toward technical leadership and architecture roles. He holds a BASc in Informatik from Technische Hochschule Augsburg and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach honed across embedded, enterprise, and cloud projects.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Informatik, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Informatik at Technische Hochschule Augsburg
German, English
Github Skills (8)
yii10
unit-testing10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php-framework10
php10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yiisoft/yii2
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the unit testing framework and application setup within the Yii2 framework. Their work includes adding functionality to require and mock the application within unit tests, introducing configurations for different application instances, and modifying the testing lifecycle. The changes also involved refactoring the testing setup, including renaming functions and adjusting the destruction of application instances after tests. These modifications aimed to improve test isolation, configuration flexibility, and application behavior in the testing environment.
php-frameworkyiiphpyii2framework
bwoester/yii-instanceof-behavior
Aug 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 7 months
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