Ben Allen
Senior Software Engineer at ANWB
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Allen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Delft with 11 years of experience building pragmatic full-stack solutions for fintech and consumer-facing platforms. He combines strong frontend expertise in React with backend work in Kotlin and Go, having reduced page load patterns from dozens of requests to a single aggregated endpoint and cut response times to ~100ms. At ANWB he moved from frontend ownership to internal tooling and operational tooling that enables incident response within minutes, and previously led frontend efforts at Governance.com integrating complex process engines into user-friendly UIs. A pragmatic engineer who prefers Vim and Arch, he champions developer ergonomics—introducing Vite, anti-corruption layers, and postmortems—to improve team velocity and system stability. His background in electrical engineering and long history of mentoring and cross-team leadership make him comfortable translating complex domain requirements into maintainable, high-performance systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical engineering, Electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
force-feedback8
arduino-nano7
lua6
file-explorer6
trend5
neovim5
wiringpi5
typescript3
nodejs2
algorithms1
frontend1
neovim-plugin1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SteveMacAwesome/csgo-events
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
benallen-dev/dotfiles
Sep 2023 - Jun 2026
Dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 133 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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