Me 👨‍💻

Hi, I’m Benjamin, 34 years old and based in Tyrol, Austria. After graduating from HTL Innsbruck where I came in contact with the hardware and software sides of the world, I decided to fully focus on software.

The first 2 years I spent working for holzweg, where I worked with PHP (Symfony, eZ Publish). Followed by a position at STI Innsbruck as a full-time Ruby (Rails) backend developer. I moved on to work for onlim (a spin-off from STI) where I spent most of my professional career so far.

Nowadays I'm working at Cookis Webworks, where I'm reintroduced to full-stack webdevelopment with technologies like Typo3, Laravel/Filament, Vue.js. In my freetime I try to realize some practical homelab projects with Laravel, Livewire and Vue.js, so I'm able to investigate both approaches of building web applications.

Skills

Backend

Ruby (★★★★)
TypeScript/Node.js (★★)
PHP (outdated, currently relearning)

Frontend (listing previous experience, outdated)

HTML
CSS / SCSS / SASS
JavaScript (jQuery, Backbone.js)

Databases & more

PostgreSQL (★★★)
MariaDB/MySQL (★★)
Redis (★)
MongoDB (★)
Kafka

DevOps

Containerization (Docker/Podman/Compose) (★★★)
Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) (★★)
IaC (Terraform) (★)
CI/CD (★★★★)
Observability (Metrics, Logging, Tracing) (★★★)

Other Tools & Technologies I use

Linux/Unix (Dev: Arch / MacOS - Server: Ubuntu)
ZSH
Neovim
VSCode
Git

Non coding ⛰️ 🏃

Besides loving to learn about new technologies or gaining more in-depth knowledge about already-used technologies, I have a big passion for sports and fitness. I love long, full day hiking trips as well as trying to stay in shape by doing regular strength exercises.