Ben Bowes
Senior Software Engineer at CitiPower and Powercor
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Bowes is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of professional experience building front-end-first products across startups, large enterprises and agency clients. He specialises in React and TypeScript ecosystems, design systems, accessibility (WCAG) and CI/CD, and has led frontend architecture, mentoring and delivery at companies including Xero, REA Group, Alinta Energy and Flybuys. Ben pairs hands-on implementation (component libraries, private npm modules, e2e and unit testing) with product-focused thinking to align developer work with long-term business outcomes. He has a strong background delivering multilingual, SEO-friendly and high-performance web experiences, and has introduced ElasticSearch, SEO and accessibility practices into products used by major universities and brands. A natural teacher and collaborator, he regularly runs brown-bags, internal training and onboarding to uplift teams while championing trust and shared ownership. Beyond corporate work he runs benbowes.com and has a history of creative technical projects, from ecommerce and SaaS UI flows to an independently built 3D game that honed his low-level graphics and game-AI skills.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
EDIM Multimedia, EDIM Multimedia at Victoria UniversityProfessional Photography Photography, Professional Photography Photography at Unitec
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Github Skills (46)
accessibility10
javascript10
react-native10
multiselect10
testing10
react-select10
vite10
web-components10
responsive10
webpack10
giphy-api10
vue10
formcontrol10
html10
svelte10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benbowes/toy-robot
Nov 2018 - May 2021
NodeJS - Classic Toy Robot code test via command line
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 5 months
toyrobotnodejstoy-robotcli
benbowes/react-responsive-select
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
A customisable, touchable, React select / multi-select form control. Built with keyboard and screen reader accessibility in mind
Contributions:3 releases, 462 commits, 263 PRs in 6 years
accessibilityformcontrolmultiselectreact-selectscreen-reader
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