Florian Benz
VP Engineering at Scalable Capital
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Benz is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently serving as VP Engineering at Scalable Capital where he drives company-wide engineering strategy from the CTO office. As the firm's first employee, he helped build its B2C wealth and broker platforms from scratch, progressing through hands-on backend and infrastructure roles to lead multiple tribes and chapters. He combines deep technical experience in Java, Spring Boot, Go and AWS with proven scaling expertise—launching products for retail and B2B clients including collaborations with Openbank and Raisin. Known for blending pragmatism with technical rigor, he has a track record of turning small cross-functional teams into reliable, operable platforms. Florian holds an MSc in Computer Science from Saarland University (top grades), and his background includes early work at Google and influential backend systems at Mercateo, reflecting both startup grit and enterprise engineering discipline.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Physics minor, 1.4 (GPA 3.6/4.0), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Physics minor, 1.4 (GPA 3.6/4.0) at Saarland UniversityHigh school diploma, Majors: mathematics, physics, geography, High school diploma, Majors: mathematics, physics, geography at St. Matthias-Gymnasium, Gerolstein
German, English
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Github Skills (73)
rest10
insomnia10
spring-auto-restdocs10
java10
mpfr10
valgrind10
spring-boot10
spring-rest-docs10
documentation10
kotlin10
postman-collection10
asciidoc10
dokka10
higher-order-functions10
aws-ecs10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fbenz/restdocs-to-postman
Dec 2017 - Jan 2022
Converts Spring REST Docs cURL snippets to Postman and Insomnia collections
Contributions:10 releases, 63 commits, 41 PRs in 4 years 1 month
curlpostmanrestspring-rest-docsrestdocs
fbenz/docker-pdflatex
Nov 2015 - Apr 2019
A Docker image that provides pdflatex with the most common packages
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
docker-imagepdflatex
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