Ben Blackmore
Chief Technology Officer at Fontys Venlo University of Applied Sciences
Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolBen Blackmore is a seasoned technology leader and CTO at Dash0 with 15 years of experience building developer-focused observability and reliability tooling. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to high-profile open-source projects like React and Gatsby—with strategic product and architecture work across frontend, backend, and data access systems. Previously a staff engineer at Instana and steadybit, he led frontend architecture, real-user monitoring, extensibility initiatives, and introduced Go into engineering stacks. Ben is active in academia as an advisory board member at Fontys Venlo, bringing industry perspective to curricula and thesis assessments. His open-source work spans UI interactivity, middleware robustness, and API design, reflecting a knack for improving developer experience and scalable tooling. He’s equally comfortable pitching product concepts to founders and shipping the technical details that make them real.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Informatics: Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Informatics: Software Engineering at Fontys Venlo University of Applied Sciences
English, German
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Github Skills (58)
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
bripkens/connect-history-api-fallback
May 2013 - Jun 2022
Fallback to index.html for applications that are using the HTML 5 history API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 26 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `connect-history-api-fallback` middleware. Their contributions included addressing bugs related to header parsing and wildcard matching, as well as implementing features such as logging capabilities. The user also focused on improving code quality by incorporating linting and refactoring existing code. Additionally, they implemented a feature to allow URL with dots to work.
tobiasflohre/movie-database
Dec 2012 - Dec 2013
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the movie database project. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of JSON API endpoints for retrieving, adding, modifying, and deleting movie entries. They also added functionality for handling comments and enabling CORS for the API. The user focused on adding features to the application's REST API.
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