Benedikt Christoph Wolters

Software Engineer

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany18 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Technical lead for innovative CAPTCHA alternatives.
  • Expertise in web protocols and performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on web performance and distributed systems.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Web PerformanceTechnical LeadershipFirewall ManagementData AnalyticsMachine LearningControl Strategies

Other Skills

Anti-Fraud ToolsC++HTTP/2ScrumTestingComputer ScienceBig DataDistributed SystemsMySQLLinuxCHTML5PHPJavaScriptLaTeX

About

I am an Senior Software Engineer from Cologne, Germany with over 10 years of experience in developing distributed and complex software systems. Currently, I work on improving the Internet at Cloudflare by getting rid of CAPTCHAs. I am the technical lead at Cloudflare for Challenges Pages and Cloudflare Turnstile. My interests include web protocols & their performance, browser networking, data-science, it-security and privacy. Always keen to meet new people and to learn about new opportunities. Qapla'! Benedikt

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Cloudflare, inc.

4 roles

Principal Systems Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Technical Lead for Challenges & Captchas
  • Responsible for removing Cloudflare's Captcha Footprint on the Internet,
  • improving its performance and offering Captcha alternatives for example by Inventions such as Managed Challenge and Turnstile.
  • Contriver of Anti-Fraud Tools such as Ephemeral ID
Web PerformanceTechnical Leadership

Distributed Systems Engineer

Oct 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Anti-Bot & Edge Mitigations Team

Systems Engineer

May 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · London, Großbritannien

  • Firewall Team: Building a firewall events analytics pipeline powering millions of events per second. Work and Maintenance of new Firewall Offerings. Edge Mitigations and intelligence including Captcha's and Javascript Challenges.

Rwth aachen university

2 roles

Student Research Assistant

Oct 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen und Umgebung, Deutschland

  • Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems
  • Network Architectures Group
  • Kernel Accelerated Packet Processing
  • HTTP/2 Performance
  • Internet-wide research measurements

Student Research Assistant

Mar 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen und Umgebung, Deutschland

  • Chair of Computer Science 2 - Theory of Hybrid Systems, Prof. Dr. Ábrahám
  • Research:
  • Evaluation and development of control strategies for hybrid electric vehicles using genetic algorithms and machine learning
  • Development of tools for the reachability analysis for hybrid systems.
  • Teaching:
  • Lab for bachelor's students : Explorative Search with Lego Mindstorms - Summer Term 2014
  • Lab for bachelor's students : Explorative Search with Lego Mindstorms - Winter Term 2014
  • Lab for master's students : Control Strategies for Hybrid Vehicles - Summer Term 2015

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Software Engineer

Jan 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Köln

  • Development of a Web-Based Multi Tenant Full Stack Logistic Platform

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Full Stack Web Developer

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · Brühl

  • Serveradministration, Pflege und Weiterentwicklung diverser Onlineplattformen im Umfeld professioneller Portraitfotografie und Hochzeitsfotografie, sowie CRM Systeme

Bundeswehr

Military Service / Grundwehrdienstleistender

Jul 2009 – Mar 2010 · 8 mos · Limburg an der Lahn / Köln-Wahn

Freiberufler

Freelance Software Developer / Softwareentwickler / Webentwickler

Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 · 6 yrs

  • Web Development and Server Administration

Education

RWTH Aachen University

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Computer Science

Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

RWTH Aachen University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Computer Science

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

St. Ursula Gymnasium Brühl

Abitur / A-Levels

Jan 2000 – Jan 2009

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