Laura Benz
Product Owner at BASF
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Benz is a Product Owner with seven years’ experience translating business needs into scalable digital solutions at BASF, currently leading the Customer Request Tracking (CuRT) product on Salesforce Service Cloud. She blends a business-informatics master's background with hands-on technical work—having contributed front-end improvements to the widely used open-source Grafana, focusing on accessibility, UI refactors, and testing migrations. At BASF she progressed from global software license management to senior consulting and now product leadership, rounding delivery with training content creation and cross-unit rollouts. Comfortable at the intersection of product strategy and implementation, she brings a practical eye for UX and compliance while navigating complex enterprise landscapes and international collaboration.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS International Business Administration and Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS International Business Administration and Information Technology at Ludwigshafen University of Business and SocietyMaster of Science - MS Business Informatics, Master of Science - MS Business Informatics at University of Mannheim
German, English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (14)
testing-library10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
accessibilityservice9
grafana9
acc9
accessibility9
acessibility9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:290 reviews, 68 commits, 194 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Laura focused on migrating existing tests to testing-library and refactoring UI components within the Grafana Explore feature. They made significant contributions by converting SASS styling to emotion and creating and integrating new UI components such as `PanelContainer` and working on the `IconButton` component. Furthermore, they addressed accessibility concerns by implementing ARIA attributes and adding tooltips to improve user interaction.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
L-M-K-B/backen-f-r-menschen
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:33 PRs, 81 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 8 months
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