About me

Who am I?

My name is Christian Rodriguez Benthake, a 27-year-old software engineer and freelancer with an emphasis in (PHP) backend development.
Additionally, I am engaged in the OSS-Community - e.g translating documentations, building software, or contributing to existing projects. Prior to COVID-19, I attended meetups, conferences, and co-working spaces e.g TYPO3 DevDays.

I currently reside and work remotely in Stuttgart, Germany. In my spare time I enjoy hiking, travelling, paragliding, or just reading a book and spending time with my wife and watching K-Drama with her.

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My technology stack

Over the years, I have worked with various languages and applications.
Here is a brief overview:

• PHP, especially modern PHP (>=7.x). e.g. This website is written with the latest PHP 8.2
  • Frameworks: Symfony, ...
  • CMS: PimCore, TYPO3, WordPress
  • Testing: PHPUnit, Codeception, Psalm, phpstan, Rector, ...
  • and plenty more ...
• JavaScript (mainly ES6+)
  • TypeScript
  • Frameworks: React, Vue, alpinejs
• DevOps
  • docker, hetzner cloud
  • webservers: nginx and apache
  • CI/CD: gitlab, bitbucket, github, JetBrains Space

I currently am learning rust. The PHP 8.0 docker image I created uses rust-lang to build the Dockerfiles based on templates.
Learn more about that docker image
That docker image can be used for PHP 8.0 in production and development, for nginx and cli usage, and runs on either debian or alpine.

What I work with:

• Developing: The entire suite provided by JetBrains, mainly PHPStorm and DataGrip
• VCS: JetBrains Space, gitlab and github
• OS: Since many years on Ubuntu-Linux
• Project-Management: Freelancing: JetBrains Space; Work: Jira

Timeline

I currently work at eCentral GmbH as my main job, and am a freelancer in my spare time.
I do not work fulltime as a freelancer, and I do not plan to change that in the foreseeable future.