Fabian Becker
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Adobe
Solms, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolFabian Becker is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems and leading engineering teams across startups and large enterprises like Adobe and Bloomberg. He combines deep server and database expertise (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) with hands-on web and full‑stack work, having contributed to notable open-source projects such as Ghost and the collaborative Tatoeba platform. Comfortable across Python, PHP, Rails, and modern cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, AWS), he moves between architecture, implementation and test automation to deliver reliable backend services. Fabian’s background in academic research (PhD-level work on evolutionary algorithms) and his history as a lecturer give him an analytical edge and a talent for mentoring engineers. Based in Solms, Germany, he’s known for pragmatically resolving tricky database and integration issues while improving UX and test coverage in community projects.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information Technology, Master Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computerwissenschaft, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computerwissenschaft at University of TübingenMaster Information Technology Technical Systems, Master Information Technology Technical Systems at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
English, German, Spanish, Swedish, isländisch
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Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Oct 2013 - Feb 2016
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:254 commits, 40 PRs, 212 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabian contributed to both the frontend and backend of the Ghost publishing platform. Their work included fixing issues in the Markdown modal, adding a new helper to escape URIs, implementing a class to indicate featured posts, and enabling featured posts to be toggled by clicking on a star icon. The user also added new unit tests to improve test coverage of theme helpers and overall quality of the project.
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Tatoeba/tatoeba2
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Tatoeba is a platform whose purpose is to create a collaborative and open dataset of sentences and their translations.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 7 PRs, 43 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Fabian contributed to fixing database schema issues, addressing UI/UX problems, and improving JavaScript functionality. They addressed issues with the database by removing duplicate primary keys, fixing syntax errors, and making hash fields not nullable. Additionally, the user improved the user interface by adding a legend to the "Languages of Members" screen and adjusting click handlers for sentences lists. They demonstrated skills across backend, frontend, and UI/UX.
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