Ben Black
Staff Software Engineer at HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions)
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBen Black is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems for Canada’s fastest-growing tech companies, currently working across Hopper and HTS. He excels at breaking down large, ambiguous problems into pragmatic engineering plans and consistently helping teams "get ship done," from designing event-driven architectures to full-stack feature delivery. His career spans fintech and travel scale-ups where he led efforts in event systems, real-time analytics, and cross-platform products, and he has a track record of raising team standards through mentorship and hiring. Based in Squamish, BC, he blends hands-on implementation (React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Node) with platform-level thinking—often improving monitoring, alerting, and operational stability behind the scenes. Notably, he has driven initiatives that processed tens of millions of messages daily with sub-second user notification requirements, showing both systems thinking and attention to product impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Sc.) Honours Computer Science at Carleton UniversityUniversité Jean Moulin (Lyon III)
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (130)
component-library10
design-tokens10
vscode-extension10
react10
javascript9
redux-devtools-extension9
scheduler9
devtools9
internationalization9
polymer9
figma-plugin9
recurring-events9
flow-based-programming9
recurring9
python9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
benjyblack/thenextepisode
Dec 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 41 pushes in 2 years 7 months
benjyblack/sweet-material-table
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
materialmaterial-designpolymer
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