Ben Rogerson
Senior Frontend Engineer at Simply Wall St
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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RockstarBen Rogerson is a Senior Frontend Engineer in Adelaide with 9 years of experience building production web apps across startups and agencies. He’s an active open-source contributor and maintainer behind twin.macro, bringing Tailwind’s utility mindset into css-in-js workflows and improving front-end developer ergonomics. In product roles he’s shipped end-to-end features—from AWS microservices and Stripe subscription flows to WCAG-compliant government sites—while creating high-performance React hooks (ResizeObserver-based) and reusable UI libraries with styled-components and Tailwind. Known for improving developer experience, he’s built CLIs, optimized build systems and crafted polished UIs with Figma and Framer. Outside work he’s a coffee-fueled full-stack tinkerer, keen mountain biker and unabashed zombie-movie fan.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
styles10
stylesheets10
css-in-js10
tailwind-css10
styled-components10
preact10
style-sheet10
react10
next-js9
css-variables9
gatsby9
configurations9
testing8
twig6
reactjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ben-rogerson/twin.macro
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
🦹♂️ Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js (emotion, styled-components, solid-styled-components, stitches and goober) at build time.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 releases, 14 reviews, 923 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the styling and design of the project by modifying the framework's configuration and implementing features through the creation and modification of CSS classes. Their work involved adding new styling features, handling text and layout adjustments, and providing tests. The commits demonstrate a focus on utilizing and extending the existing styling framework.
tailwindcssgoobertailwindmagicreactjs
ben-rogerson/twin.examples
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Packed with examples for different frameworks, this repo helps you get started with twin a whole lot faster.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:282 commits, 32 PRs, 255 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the implementation of examples using various front-end frameworks, specifically Preact with Styled Components, React with Styled Components, Gatsby, and Next.js. Their work involved creating UI components, utilizing twin.macro for styling with Tailwind CSS, and setting up the basic structure for each example. The user demonstrated proficiency in building front-end applications and integrating styling solutions.
tailwindcssget-startedemotionjstailwindlot
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