Benjamin Serfhos
Research Software Engineer at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Rozenburg, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBenjamin Serfhos is a research software engineer based in Rozenburg, Netherlands, bringing 12 years of full-stack experience to academia and industry. He is a certified TYPO3 Integrator and Developer, specializing in PHP, TYPO3, HTML/CSS, Java, AS3, and SEO. Currently at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, he combines research software engineering with enterprise CMS work. He also leads as a Freelance Web Developer through Serfhos.com, delivering client-focused web solutions since 2016. In TYPO3 core, he contributed back-end bug fixes and feature enhancements—improving data handling, root-level record insertions, and flexform logic. With a background in Mediatechnology and IT Management from Hogeschool Rotterdam and Albeda College, he brings a practical, research-informed approach to delivering reliable, scalable CMS and web solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mediatechnology, Bachelor, Mediatechnology at Hogeschool RotterdamIT Management, Software Modeling, IT Management, Software Modeling at Albeda College
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
back-end10
backend10
content-management10
typo310
back-end-development10
data-handling9
caching6
laravel6
extbase6
realurl6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TYPO3/typo3
Sep 2013 - Aug 2020
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the TYPO3 core, focusing on the backend and data handling aspects of the CMS. Their work involved improving code logic by implementing `instanceof` comparisons, allowing root-level record insertions, and adjusting flexform functionality. They also addressed issues related to data validation and display conditions within the TYPO3 backend.
cmsmanagement-systemphpsynchronizedtypo3-cms
koninklijke-collective/koning_bootstrap_carousel
May 2017 - Sep 2019
TYPO3 Extension: Bootstrap carousel
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
typo3bootstraptypo3-extensioncarousel
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