Ben Bankes
Code Butler at Playground Sessions
Ogden, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Bankes is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience who transitioned from chemical engineering to building user-focused applications as the "Code Butler" at Playground Sessions. He combines rigorous problem-solving skills from aerospace and chemical process work with a product-first approach to deliver fast, high-quality code that helps users "play to learn" music. Prior roles as an IT lead and design engineer honed his systems thinking, modeling, and data-reduction techniques, enabling him to tackle both front-end UX challenges and backend reliability. Based in Ogden, Utah, he values clean code, development speed, and measurable outcomes, often applying engineering discipline to improve product and process. An underappreciated strength is his ability to translate complex engineering constraints into simple, testable software features that ship on schedule.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Chemical Engineering, B.S, Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
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Github Skills (134)
act10
database-design10
pdo10
php10
relational9
async9
letsencrypt9
rest9
aes-encryption9
database9
high-performance9
encrypt9
python9
phpunit9
unzip9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PlaygroundSessions/Propel
Feb 2019 - Jan 2024
Current stable (and outdated and unmaintained) version of Propel - Please use v2 https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2 --
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 11 months
outdatedpropel2metaprogrammingdub
benbankes/backup-validator
May 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:23 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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