Radek Benkel
Staff Software Engineer at Bethink
Greater Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolRadek Benkel is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems and improving developer experience across startups and large organizations. He blends a generalist engineering background with a strong DevOps mindset, focusing on architecture, performance tuning, observability, and CI/CD modernization. Radek has led migrations to ArgoCD and OpenTelemetry, implemented Kubernetes workloads, and driven system design at companies like hitta.se and Pearson. He’s an active open-source contributor—having significantly extended the popular eslint-plugin-import with new rules and edge-case fixes—demonstrating attention to developer tooling and code quality. A former founder and frequent interviewer, he pairs hands-on implementation with hiring and mentoring experience. Based in Greater Poland Voivodeship, he brings pragmatic engineering trade-offs informed by both backend systems and frontend performance work.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Poznan University of Technology
Polish, English
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
zend-framework10
eslint10
software-quality10
linting10
multidimensional-arrays9
php9
import-data9
html9
imports9
testing8
right-click6
orm6
context-menu6
doctrine6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
import-js/eslint-plugin-import
Apr 2016 - May 2016
ESLint plugin with rules that help validate proper imports.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 45 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Radek contributed significantly to the `eslint-plugin-import` repository by implementing new rules and extending existing functionalities. They added support for `require` statements within the `newline-after-import` rule and incorporated a new `newlines-between` option for the `order` rule. The user also fixed edge cases and addressed issues related to multiline imports and nested `require` statements within the `order` rule.
linterlinteslintjavascriptlinting
holidaycheck/liam-tasks
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
automationliam
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