About Benjamin

I’m a generalist, with over 20 years experience of working in information technology.

I've held most of the roles there are in a typical software development organisation.

However, over the last years I found that I’m most effective when I help an organisation grow in various ways, not only in terms of size. Which, also, lead me to start Founder Accelerator.

When not collaborating and co-creating with people to make workplaces more effective and humane, I enjoy cycling long-ish distances, like to read (ask me about my latest read), listen to music (my taste in music taste is … eclectic, yet rooted in the 90s), like to draw, and love to spend time with my family and travel with our caravan.

Things I’ve done in the past, but don’t do anymore, yet they’re still part of who I am:

• Help organise & run SoCraTes: in 2014 and 2015 I was the main organizer of the german edition of SoCraTes conference. Having had the fortune to be there at the very first SoCraTes in 2011 in Rückersbach, the conference and community has since been very dear to my heart, and a special time (almost) every year.
• #humansconf: In 2019 I started organizing a small (max. 80ppl) in-person conference, that was planned to take place in Germany. The goal was to give the humans/people-aspect of tech and the exchange about that a dedicated space. When the pandemic started, we switched to an online-only approach and hosted two events in 2020.
• Organized several local tech communities, including a Coderetreat event series, DevOps Meetup, a (now non-existant) Scala Meetup, and helped kickstart several other local tech communities.