Ben Beecher
Chief Technology Officer at Hylite
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolBen Beecher is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 16 years of experience building and scaling full-stack engineering teams and products. He has led large portfolios and teams—at Lightmatter he scaled a 40+ person organization, launched 50+ startups, and implemented processes that cut time-to-velocity to one week while maintaining >90% code coverage and retention. Hands-on across the stack, Ben’s contributions range from backend JSON schema work in schematics to front-end enhancements in the widely used htmx project, where he improved event handling and client-side redirects. He combines strategic planning with practical engineering, having shipped reusable open-source project skeletons that saved the company years of developer time. Based in Jersey City, he blends startup founding experience, enterprise development at MongoDB, and quantitative data work from his early finance roles into a pragmatic, metrics-driven leadership style. Colleagues describe him as a coachable mentor who consistently moves engineers into senior roles while aligning product delivery to measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA Dual: Computer Science and Economics, BA Dual: Computer Science and Economics at Goucher CollegeAshland High School
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
python10
validations10
json-schema10
data-serialization10
htmx10
validation10
data-structure10
serialization10
html10
data-structures10
schema10
winapi9
testing9
exceptions9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
schematics/schematics
Nov 2011 - Aug 2012
Python Data Structures for Humans™.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the development of JSON schema validation capabilities within the `schematics/schematics` repository. Their commits involved defining and implementing JSON schema types for various data structures, including strings, numbers, and booleans. The user also refactored code, making JSON schema fields private and adding logic to collect them to `BaseField`. These changes enhance the library's ability to handle and validate data based on JSON schema specifications.
python-datapythonvalidationdatastructuresserialization
bigskysoftware/htmx
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
</> htmx - high power tools for HTML
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the htmx JavaScript library by fixing bugs and adding new features related to event handling and client-side interactions. Their work included addressing issues in OOB (out-of-band) swaps, refining event triggering for UI updates, and implementing client-side redirect functionality using the HX-Location header. The user's commits also involved refactoring and enhancing existing functionalities, such as ajax calls with swap specifications, and improving the test suite to validate the newly added features.
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