Michael Benz
Entwickler at FOCONIS AG
Passau, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Benz is an agile software developer and long-time Scrum Master based in Passau with nine years of IT experience spanning quality assurance and hands-on development. He brings a tester’s mindset to engineering work, with strong practical experience in C#, extensive use of JUnit, and Java-based Selenium/Testbench automation. At FOCONIS AG he blends team facilitation with coding, and his open-source contributions to the well-known Ebean ORM demonstrate backend and database engineering skills—fixing migrations, enum handling, and cross-database compatibility issues. That combination of QA roots, agile coaching, and low-level database problem solving makes him an all-rounder who focuses on delivering robust, testable software.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universität Passau
English
Github Skills (17)
database-migrations10
databases10
java10
javas10
orm10
sql10
database-migration10
database10
testing9
postgresql9
postgrest9
h29
hsqldb8
mariadb8
mysql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ebean-orm/ebean
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Ebean ORM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 9 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Ebean ORM project by addressing database migration issues and fixing bugs related to enum handling and constraint application. They also focused on improving the integration of Ebean with various database systems, including PostgreSQL, H2, and HSQLDB. Their work involved modifying database schema definitions, updating SQL scripts, and ensuring compatibility across different database versions and configurations. Additionally, they worked on a unit test demonstrating a bug in deleting entities via query and respecting the CascadeType.
sqlserverhanaebeanjdbcorm
focbenz/website-source
Apr 2017 - Aug 2024
Source for the public website / documentation
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 7 years 5 months
documentation-website
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