Benjamin Klotz

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Me 👨‍💻

Hi 👋 I’m Benjamin, 29 years old and based in Tyrol, Austria. Currently I’m working at onlim as software engineer with a focus on backend and DevOps. After graduating from HTL Innsbruck where I came in contact with hardware and software side of the world I decided to fully focus on software.

The first 2 years I spent working for a web agency where I worked with PHP (Symfony, eZ Publish). Followed by a position at STI Innsbruck as a full-time Ruby (Rails) developer. Branched off from STI I moved on working for onlim where I’m still employed to date.

During the whole time working as developer I was curious to learn new things, but also trying to get a detailed understanding of the technologies I use. Altough I’m a big Ruby enthusiast 💎❤️, I’m learning more JavaScript and TypeScript combined with Node.js and NestJS to leverage it on the backend. In my spare time I’m currently experimenting with Hanami and Crystal.

Also I’m a big believer in OSS and try to give back to it by either contributing or sponsoring:

• Github
• OpenCollective

Skills

Architecture

• Microservices (★★★)
• API Design - RESTful, GraphQL (★★★)
• TDD (★★★★)
• SOLID (★★★)

Backend

• 💎 Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Roda) (★★★★)
• 🚀 Node.js (TypeScript, Express.js, NestJS, Prisma) (★★)
• 🐘 PHP (Symfony) (★★)
• 🔮 Crystal (★)
• 🦀 Rust (★)

Frontend

• HTML (★★★)
• CSS / SCSS (★★★)
• TypeScript (★★)

Databases

• 🐘 PostgreSQL (★★★)
• 🔑 Redis (★★★)
• 📄 MongoDB (★★)
• 🔍 Elasticsearch (★★)

DevOps

• 🕋 Docker/Compose (★★★★)
• ⚙️ Kubernetes (★★★)
• Heroku (★★)
• 🚢 CI/CD (★★★★)
• 🪐 Terraform (★★)
• 🔬 Observability (Metrics, Logging, Tracing) (★★★★)

Tools

• Git (★★★★)
• Github (★★★★)
• Bitbucket (★★★★)
• ✉️ Kafka (★)
• ✉️ RabbitMQ (★★)
• 📃 OpenAPI (★★)
• Bash (★★★)
• ZSH (★★★)
• Neovim (★★★)

Non coding ⛰️ 🏃

Besides loving to learn about new technologies or gaining more in depth knowledege about already used technologies I have a big passion for sports and fitness. I love long full day hiking trips, do 2-3 runs per week and love getting more in shape after years of living a unhealthy lifestyle.

If you are interested in my sport activities consider to follow me on Strava or Instagram.