Ben Stocks
Founder at Solen Labs
Los Angeles, California, United States
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SeniorBen Stocks is a founder and multi-disciplinary software leader based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable web applications. As founder of Solen Labs since 2015, he integrates product, design, and operations to bring innovative ideas to life in fast-moving environments. He previously steered product and operations at Reaction Commerce (acquired by Mailchimp), contributing hands-on full-stack development to a Node.js/React/GraphQL-based open-source commerce platform and guiding its growth from inception to acquisition. His GitHub work centers on e-commerce tooling—extending product detail and grid functionality, implementing variant pricing and validation, and ironing out product-variant relationships—revealing deep domain expertise in pricing, inventory, and data integrity. Early in his career, he co-founded Sovereign Visual and worked as a graphic/web designer and photographer, grounding his engineering work in strong creative and user-centered sensibilities.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
inventory-management-system10
javascript10
javascripts10
coffeescript10
inventory-management10
e-commerce10
meteor9
react9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
css8
html8
wordpress-graphql7
wp-graphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
reactioncommerce/reaction
May 2014 - Jan 2015
Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 17 comments, 46 issues in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the product detail and product grid features within the Reaction Commerce platform. They implemented features related to variant pricing, including price range calculations and display, while also integrating with and utilizing the existing product variant system. Additionally, they made significant changes to the product variant form and grid display, modifying the quantity input field and associated validation rules. The user also addressed several bug fixes related to parent/child variant relationships and quantity calculations.
ecommerceapi-firstshopping-cartreact-jsshop
bstocks/meteor-bourbon
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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