Fascinated by the possibilities, Benjamin Trenkle has been a passionate Joomla! developer since Joomla! 1.0. Since then, he has taken on various roles within the Joomla! community. He serves as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code project and is a member of the Security Strike Team and the CMS Maintenance Team. After serving as Release Lead for Joomla! 4.1, he worked for one year as Production Department Coordinator before taking over leadership of the CMS Release Team in August 2022, where he supports the current and future release managers for Joomla!. Since 2026, he has been the team leader of the Maintenance Team. He has also been involved in implementing a wide range of Joomla! features, such as multilingual support in Joomla! 3, the workflow system for Joomla! 4, the Task Scheduler, and the schema.org implementation.
At the same time, he runs the company Wicked Software, which specializes in the development of Joomla! extensions. Their offerings include the “Wicked Team” component, which enables the management of records, employees, departments, roles, and lists directly within the Joomla! backend. In addition, he offers the development of custom extensions, maintenance, support and training, as well as consulting for multilingual websites, accessible websites, and complex Joomla! projects.
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