Benno Kress

Benno Kress

App Architect in Kissing (Germany), he/him/his

Projects

Ongoing

The security app that serves as a second factor for financial transactions and other security-relevant processes of bank customers that use it.

2023
EPI Wallet Conception at it-economics for Atruvia

Technical Conception for the integration of European Payments Initiative (EPI) into SecureGo plus, the security app used by the banks that are part of the German Cooperative Financial Group (BVR).

2019

Conception and realization of the successor of the VR Banking (Classic) App using the latest technologies including SwiftUI. The new app combines native views and integrated web views using a technology that is reminiscent of PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) which wasn't officially supported on iOS at the time. It integrates the Apple Pay Library I worked on before as well.

2019
Apple Pay Library at it-economics for Fiducia GAD (now Atruvia)

An internal CocoaPods Library used to integrate Apple Pay in VR Banking (Classic) as well as the then planned successor of that app as well as all themed variants of those apps.

2017
VR Banking (Classic) at it-economics for Fiducia GAD (now Atruvia)

Maintenance of the VR Banking (Classic) app and its themed variants for other banks.

2017
TimeTrack at it-economics GmbH

An internal app to track time spent on various projects and book it in the existing company-wide time tracking tool offering a better mobile experience.

2016
Memory at it-economics GmbH

An internal app used to gamify learning the names of colleagues across company sites.

Side Projects

2022

A Swift Package that simplifies structured logging to multiple destinations with features like log levels and destination specific formatting.

2022

A Swift Package that streamlines saving anything Codable in a Swift App.

Work Experience

2017 — Now
München

Developing mainly Mobile Apps for Apple Platforms

2016 — 2017

Education

2009 — 2018
Bachelor of Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

1999 — 2008
Allgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur) at Rudolf-Diesel-Gymnasium
Augsburg

Certifications

2021
ISTQB-FL from iSQI

Certified Tester

2021
CPSA-F from iSAQB

Certified Professional for Software Architecture

2020
CPRE-FL from iSQI

Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering

2018
CPUX-F from UXQB

Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience

Contact

GitHub
Glass
Mastodon (US)
Mastodon (DE)