Ben Tiedt - Software Architect at Telligent, a Verint Company

Ben Tiedt

Software Architect at Telligent, a Verint Company

Rockford, Michigan, United States

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Ben Tiedt is a Software Architect at Telligent (Verint) with over a decade shaping the Telligent Community platform since 2005. He has led development across core features—media gallery, tags, theming, centralized file systems, widgets, and page/theme management—and steered teams for Calendar and various integrations (SharePoint, Mobile, Salesforce, Lync). His breadth spans ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, XML, and modern front-end/back-end engineering, with a track record of building extensible UI and integration layers. He champions the Widget Studio framework and platform extensibility, aligning partners and customers with social technology capabilities. In addition to enterprise work, he contributed to TinyMCE as a Front-end Developer, refining autolink regex handling and DOM parsing through iterative enhancements. Based in Rockford, Michigan, Ben combines long-term platform stewardship with a practical, hands-on approach to deliver scalable, reliable software.

10 years of coding experience

18 years of employment as a software developer

BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Grand Valley State University

Transferred, Electrical Engineering, Transferred, Electrical Engineering at Grove City College

English

Github Skills (14)

javascript10

wysiwyg10

javascripts10

html-editor10

text-editor10

tinymce10

editor10

ck-editor10

rich-text-editor10

tinymce510

regular-expressions9

html9

regular-expression9

contenteditable9

Programming languages (3)

C#TypeScriptJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

tinymce/tinymce

Oct 2015 - Nov 2015

The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs in 16 days

Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on modifying the TinyMCE editor's autolink functionality and parsing capabilities. They implemented the ability to override the autolink URL detection regex, enhancing the editor's flexibility. Subsequently, they reverted these changes, then re-implemented the feature, demonstrating iterative refinement. They also modified DomParser functionality.

vue-reactrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrichtext

Telligent/jint

Oct 2018 - Dec 2023

Javascript Interpreter for .NET

Contributions:12 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 2 months

dotnetjavascriptcsharpinterpreterjavascript-interpreter

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