Stephan Behnke
Senior Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Behnke is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating scalable, high-throughput systems across startups and large product teams. He pairs deep backend expertise in Go, Java, Elixir, Scala and Python with hands-on full-stack experience to ship robust features that enabled major enterprise sales and operational savings. At PagerDuty he led projects that delivered 10x throughput, 99.99% availability and a record-setting sales pipeline for a single feature, and he continues improving core backend services at Temporal by optimizing Go internals and refactoring for maintainability. He has a history of founding and scaling products—from setting up the backend that grew an HR SaaS from $200K to $3.2M ARR to building an educational platform as CTO—and runs training courses in Scala. Based in Victoria, BC, Stephan blends pragmatic engineering, cost-conscious operational design, and a knack for turning complex requirements into production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Business Administration at The Berlin School of Economics and Law
English, German, French
Github Skills (9)
code-optimization10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
computer-engineering9
microservices-application9
workflow-automation9
workflow-engine9
microservices9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
temporalio/temporal
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Temporal service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1069 reviews, 519 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Stephan's contributions primarily revolve around implementing backend improvements and refactoring existing code within the Temporal service. The commits demonstrate the user's focus on enhancing core functionalities and code maintenance, replacing custom utility functions with built-in ones, and fixing issues. The code changes are primarily focused on optimizing code efficiency by utilizing built-in functions in Go to replace custom functions and ensuring better code practices. The user is contributing to the optimization and maintainability of the backend service.
service-busmicroservice-orchestrationworkflow-automationworkflow-enginedocker
stephanos/workframe
Nov 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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