Benjamin Schneider
About me
I was born and grew up in Switzerland and have been living in Zurich for the last few years. I am currently studying Computing & Economics at the University of Zurich and working as a freelance software engineer.
In my off time, I like to read, listen to all kinds of music, and tinker with random side projects.
Freelance Work
I am available for freelance work in web- and software development, product management and business-/requirements analysis. If you'd like to talk about working together, you can get in touch via the email address below.
Contact Me
The best way to reach me is via email:
mail@benjaminschneider.ch
Projects
Some projects I've been involved in.
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During the summer of 2018, I briefly worked at Digital Festival in Zurich and helped organize the three-day conference and the HackZurich hackathon.
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For the last two years, I've been helping out on the organizing team of Science Slam Zurich.
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During my time at TICKETINO AG in Zurich, I worked on relaunching the online shop in a new look and on a more state of the art technology stack (.NET Core).
I mostly took over the role of Product Owner together with the CTO, but was also involved in documentation, analyzing the existing business logic and writing code directly with the team of developers.
During my last year at the company, I lead the developer team directly reporting to the CTO. The role consisted of about equal parts product development and coordination of custom development projects between the client-facing project managers and the developers.
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Me & Max Wallner built a social betting game for european / world soccer championships called HelloSepp (currently offline).
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During my (rather brief) time as a student at the University of St. Gallen, I was part of the team of Start Global and helped organize a two day student-run entrepreneurship conference on campus.
Nerd Stuff
I recently realized I kind of miss the old "link lists" websites used to have, so for lack of a better title, you can find some of my favourite online finds and regular reads/listens etc. over on this page.
Miscellaneous
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Programming Elevators - Short writeup on my Elevator Saga solution.
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DOIHub - Very simple chrome extension that redirects doi.org links to Sci-Hub automatically. It's not too sophisticated at this point, and I'm not sure if I will develop it any further.
Photography
I mostly take pictures when I'm either traveling or hiking. You can find some of my pictures on the following pages. I also occasionally post to my instagram account.
Books
You can find a list of books I enjoyed here.