Thorben Lindhauer
Engineering Director at Camunda
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolThorben Lindhauer is an Engineering Director based in Berlin with 12 years of hands-on experience building and leading backend teams at Camunda, where he progressed from core developer to director. He’s tightly versed in workflow and process orchestration, contributing code and documentation across the Camunda ecosystem—from engine internals and job migration logic to Spring Boot integration and docs for REST/CMMN. Thorben blends technical depth with people leadership, shipping robust platform features while improving developer experience and testing infrastructure. His open-source work includes notable contributions to the widely used camunda repositories, demonstrating an ability to translate complex BPM concepts into clear examples and guides. Collected at Hasso Plattner Institute, his background in IT-Systems Engineering underpins a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to scaling mission-critical automation systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute PotsdamImmanuel-Kant-Gymnasium Münster-Hiltrup
Github Skills (32)
technical-writing10
testing10
workflow-engine10
java10
javas10
automation10
camunda10
bpmn10
orchestration-framework10
spring-boot10
automations10
documentation10
amazon-elasticsearch9
database-api9
json9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
camunda/camunda-bpm-examples
Nov 2014 - Jul 2021
A collection of usage examples for Camunda Platform intended to get you started quickly
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 36 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Thorben contributed to the Camunda BPM examples repository, focusing on improving existing examples and adding new ones to showcase various features. Their work included refining documentation for service task examples involving SOAP and REST requests. They also added examples for message start events and multi-tenancy setups demonstrating engine configuration and schema isolation. Additionally, the user provided examples and configurations for configuring Jackson data format in the spin context.
camundabpmnactivitidmnbusiness-process
camunda/camunda-bpm-platform
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
C7 CE enters EOL in October 2025. Please check out C8 https://github.com/camunda/camunda – Flexible framework for workflow and decision automation with BPMN and DMN. Integration with Quarkus, Spring, Spring Boot, CDI.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:107 reviews, 972 commits, 404 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thorben is focused on enhancing the engine's core, with primary contributions involving the handling and migration of jobs, including tasks for external services. The code changes indicate a focus on updating job configurations, supporting various event types (such as message, signal, and timer events), and ensuring variable handling and history are maintained during migration and other operations. The user's work has involved refactoring code, updating error handling, and integrating new functionalities related to these processes.
flexible-frameworkcamundacamunda-bpm-platformdmnspring
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