Ben Mccann
Investor And Advisor at C3 Ventures
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Mccann is an investor and advisor in Mountain View who blends founder-stage product and engineering leadership with active open-source stewardship. He co-founded and served as CTO of Connectifier, a machine-learning talent search company acquired by LinkedIn, and subsequently led engineering for LinkedIn’s AI-powered hire matching products. Earlier at Google he launched Realtime Google Analytics and drove large-scale build and dependency improvements that improved performance and reliability. A long-time OSS maintainer (SvelteKit) and prolific contributor to projects like Vite, Svelte, Rollup and Chart.js, he specializes in frontend tooling, build systems and modern ESM migrations. He invests at seed stage in deep-tech and platform startups (including Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company and Polymath Robotics) and holds a B.S. and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon — he also built his first million‑hit website at 16, reflecting early product instincts.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance, Strategy, Marketing, MBA, Finance, Strategy, Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of BusinessB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (172)
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
chartjs/chartjs-chart-financial
Apr 2017 - Oct 2021
Chart.js module for charting financial securities
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 123 commits, 74 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben's primary contribution was the initial implementation of a Chart.js module for charting financial securities, as indicated by the initial commit. Their work focused on developing the core candlestick and OHLC chart elements and integrating them with the Chart.js framework. The user addressed critical functionalities such as tooltip display and refined the bar thickness settings to enhance visual clarity. They also refactored the code to use the latest Chart.js version.
financialchartsjavascript-libraryforexchart
chartjs/Chart.js
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 374 commits, 570 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focused on improving the Chart.js library's samples by updating and modernizing the code. They made modifications to load scripts from CDNs using HTTPS for security. Furthermore, the user introduced a new financial time series sample, allowing users to visually display their data with the updated sample. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing existing features and providing practical examples for users.
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