Stefan Bechtold
Solution Architect - Customer Experience at Arineo Group
Butzbach, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Bechtold is a Solution Architect focused on customer experience with 12 years of hands-on software and architecture experience, currently leading CX solutions at Arineo Group from his base in Butzbach, Germany. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Namics – A Merkle Company, moving from software engineer to senior architect and product lead, blending delivery, product thinking, and client-facing architecture. Technically rooted in Java and test automation, he’s an active contributor to the widely used JUnit 5 project, where he improved test discovery and lifecycle support—an indication of his attention to developer experience and reliable engineering. Stefan holds top-graded degrees in computer science (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) and vocational certification in application development, combining rigorous academic grounding with long-term practical delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who bridges deep implementation detail and strategic customer outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Anwendungsentwickler (IHK), Informatik, Sehr gut, Anwendungsentwickler (IHK), Informatik, Sehr gut at IHK OffenbachBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, Sehr gut, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, Sehr gut at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
German, English
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
test-framework10
junit10
java10
test-automation10
junit-runner6
kotlin5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
junit-team/junit5
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
✅ The 5th major version of the programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 70 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily contributed to the JUnit 5 testing framework. Their work included addressing an indentation issue on the console by fixing the ANSI color disruption and adding test plan to all listener methods and introduced composed listener in the registry. They introduced a TestDescriptorResolver for the JUnit5TestEngine, enabling more advanced test discovery and execution. Furthermore, the user added support for BeforeAll and AfterAll annotation methods.
test-automationjunit-jupitertesting-frameworkjunit-vintagetesting
sapcxtools/sapcxbackoffice
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Enhancements for the SAP CX Backoffice Application
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 10 months
sap-commerce-cloudsap-hanasapsap-cloud-platformsap-commerce
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