Matus Benko
Senior Java Software Engineer at finAPI
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMatus Benko is a Senior Java Software Engineer based in the Greater Munich area with over a decade of professional experience and 7+ years in agile product teams. He blends backend Java/Spring expertise with hands-on frontend work in React, having bootstrapped projects from scratch and driven high test coverage and CI/CD deployments to AWS. As a former lead and team lead at Wirecard he shaped modular architecture and initiated microservice and monitoring strategies while also onboarding and coordinating international teams. Comfortable switching roles, he has shipped UI improvements in open-source projects like BoostNote-legacy, demonstrating practical front-end refactoring and UX-focused automation. Known for clear architectural decision records and a focus on deliverability, he balances pragmatic engineering with continuous improvement. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex domain problems into maintainable, well-tested solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Informatics, Engineer's degree, Informatics at Technická univerzita v Košiciach
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
electron10
react10
stylus9
open-source8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BoostIO/BoostNote-Legacy
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Matus primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Boostnote-legacy application. Their contributions included extracting and refactoring UI components such as folder lists and items, using React-sortable-hoc for drag-and-drop functionality, and adding drag handles. They also implemented features for managing folder colors and names within the application's preferences modal. Moreover, the user connected the sortable folder list to the data API, allowing changes to be saved and reordered.
stylusreactelectronwindowscollaborative-writing
PrimaMateria/nixos
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:185 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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