Ben Akroyd
Senior Software Engineer at CandleScience
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Akroyd is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading web teams, currently driving platform work at CandleScience from Raleigh, NC. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, with deep hands-on experience in eCommerce platforms such as Spree and Solidus, and a history of progressing from web developer to tech lead and senior engineer within the same company. His background blends technical delivery with communications and campaign management, so he brings product-minded engineering and strong cross-functional leadership to customer-facing projects. Ben also teaches and mentors—having coached Ruby on Rails bootcamps—and continually sharpens his skills through ongoing studies in full‑stack development and computer science. An eye for practical solutions and long tenure at a single product-focused company suggest he’s skilled at iterating on legacy systems while shipping user-centric features.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ongoing Web Design/Development Education, Ongoing Web Design/Development Education at Lynda.comBA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at North Carolina State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Software Engineering at Free Code CampRuby on Rails Development, Ruby on Rails Development at Tech Talent South
Spanish
Github Skills (88)
full-stack10
vue10
nuxt10
javascript9
linux9
spree9
fast-jsonapi9
ruby9
solidus9
hybrid9
ecommerce9
storefront9
csr9
rails9
ransack9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CandleScience/site_status
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 8 months
BenAkroyd/howlocal
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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