Benny Neugebauer
Staff Software Engineer, Partner Enablement at XMTP Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBenny Neugebauer is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable developer tooling and SDKs, currently focusing on partner enablement for XMTP and previously leading platform engineering for carbon accounting at South Pole. He has deep open-source credentials—contributing to foundational projects like TypeScript-adjacent DefinitelyTyped, Electron apps such as Wire Desktop, and widely used tooling like ESLint, Prettier, Node.js and VS Code—so chances are you’ve used software he helped improve. Benny blends frontend polish with backend rigor, having implemented complex TypeScript/JavaScript algorithms for trading indicators and robust API wrappers for crypto exchanges. He’s practiced in secure messaging protocols (MLS) and developer experience, owning SDKs and integration patterns that unblock real-world deployments. Based in Berlin, he balances day-job climate-impact work with active community mentoring on StackOverflow and TypeScript content on YouTube. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative engineer who turns cross-team coordination into tangible, well-documented code.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatik, Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatik at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Stackoverflow
53,140reputation
36.1mreached
230answers
90questions
google-maps
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error-handling
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executable-jar
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java
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if-statement
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debugging
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Github Skills (82)
github10
dma10
typescript-definitions10
websocket10
type-definition10
type-system10
websockets-client10
technical-indicators10
client-websocket10
javascript10
jquery10
es6-promise10
youtube10
financial-analysis10
api10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
wireapp/wire-desktop
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
:computer: Wire for desktop
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 37 reviews, 131 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benny primarily contributed to bug fixes within the desktop application's Electron-based frontend. Their work addressed issues related to focus management, including problems with webview focus and focus loss on notifications. The user also made changes to the UI, specifically to the sidebar and the display of error messages, improving the application's user experience. These changes involved modifications to React components, suggesting a focus on frontend development.
electronwindowslinuxdesktopelectron-app
bennycode/wizardy
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Conversational wizard and prompts generator
Contributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 6 months
conversationalpromptswizardconversational-interfaceconversational-ui
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