About Tim

My name is Tim Benniks. I'm a Dutchman living in France where I work remotely from a farm in the countryside. I'm Developer Experience Lead at Contentstack.

Before I joined Contentstack, I worked at Hygraph, and at Uniform as director of developer relations. Before that I spend about 15 years at agencies building websites for huge brands. I was global front-end director at Valtech Principal front-end developer at AKQA.

In 2020 I forged a new career path for myself by re-exploring my creativity. I’ve been a lifelong musician and since we moved countries many years ago, I didn’t play much. The agency life was resting heavy on my shoulders and I missed sharing with my community and being creative.

I jumped right in and decided to make a new YouTube video each week and to start speaking at conferences once a month. This creative path changed my life. I learnt a lot from the developer community and I started to make a name for myself.

The outcome of a year if creative work was a job at a start up where I led developer relations. Fast forward a few years and I'm now on solid ground in the start up world continuing with roles in developer relations like the one I landed at Hygraph in 2023.

I love to explore my creativity by making videos, live streams and speaking. Now that virtual conferences are a thing I have specialised in making entertaining, high production value talks that I pre-record.

On my YouTube channel I explore web development related topics but I also conduct interviews and I try out services with live commentary.

Making all these videos is lot's of work. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe or even sponsor me.

Tim Benniks is a Netherlands-born Developer Relations Lead for Outreach and Awareness at Hygraph, currently residing in France. With a rich background in web development and creative content production, Tim has built a career that merges technical expertise with artistic expression.

As of 2024, Tim serves as the Developer Experience Lead at Contentstack and works remotely from his countryside farm in France.

Before joining Contentstack, Tim was the Director of Developer Relations at Uniform and Developer Relations lead at Hygraph. He also has considerable experience in agencies, including roles such as Global Front-end Director at Valtech and Principal Front-end Developer at AKQA.

In 2020, Tim decided to reinvent his career to reconnect with his creativity and community. Moving away from agency life, he began focusing on producing YouTube videos and speaking at conferences to share his knowledge and passion for web development and creativity.

Tim specializes in creating high-production-value talks for virtual conferences and YouTube videos that explore web development topics, conduct interviews, and feature live commentary on various services.

If you enjoy Tim's work and wish to support him, you can subscribe to his YouTube channel or consider sponsoring his content creation efforts.

Tim regularly produces content related to Hygraph, such as "The simplest way to connect Hygraph to NuxtJS," "Astro," and "Nextjs." These and more can be found on their YouTube channel. Make sure to follow for Hygraph live streams as well.

Reach out to timbenniks.dev@gmail.com or find Tim on Linkedin or Twitter.