Benjamin Zikarsky
CTO at PERBILITY GmbH
Burgebrach, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Zikarsky is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11 years of professional experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across Germany and remote-first environments. He combines hands-on software craftsmanship with servant leadership, having progressed from senior engineer roles to CTO and Staff Engineer at Meta, where he balanced product and technical strategy. Benjamin emphasizes pragmatic technology choices, sustainable velocity, and giving teams autonomy—preferring careful listening and enabling over top-down control. His background includes repeated leadership at Perbility and Jaumo, reflecting a track record of turning complex product needs into reliable, maintainable systems. Trained with an MSc in Informatik from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, he’s as comfortable filling operational gaps as he is setting long-term architectural direction.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Github Skills (141)
backend10
neo4j-ogm10
bundle10
symfony-bundle10
graylog10
symfony10
application-server10
reactphp10
logger10
amphp10
php10
gelf10
logging10
async9
non-blocking9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bzikarsky/react-gearman
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 releases, 21 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 6 months
phpgearmanontopasyncreactphp
bzikarsky/gelf-php
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
A php implementation to send log-files to a gelf compatible backend like graylog
Contributions:26 releases, 5 reviews, 49 commits in 3 years 5 months
graylogloggerlog-filesphplogging
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