Benno Luthiger
Community Head at /ch/open
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolBenno Luthiger is a Community Head and software engineer with 14+ years shaping open source strategy and developer communities at ETH Zurich. He combines technical depth—from long-standing software development roles since the late 1990s—with academic rigor as a PhD in Business Administration, focusing on how social movements and crowd-sourced knowledge influence technological innovation. Known for bridging engineering, research, and community stewardship, he navigates both code and the socio-organizational dynamics that make open projects sustainable. Based in Zurich, he brings interdisciplinary insights from physics and cultural anthropology to practical knowledge management and crowd-sourcing initiatives.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Business Administration, Ph.D., Business Administration at University of Zurich
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
spring9
spring-boot9
eclipse9
code-editor8
openapi6
openliberty6
osgi6
osgi-bundle6
swagger6
microprofile6
java6
equinox6
magnolia5
eclipse-marketplace3
eclipse-plugin2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eth-its/Python-for-SysAdmins
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Mirror of https://gitlab.ethz.ch/sd-community/courses/py4sysadmins
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 8 months
aktion-hip/vgz-module
Jul 2021 - Jun 2026
Magnolia light module for VGZ
Contributions:3 releases, 123 PRs, 108 pushes in 4 years 11 months
magnolialight
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