Ben Calder
Front End Lead at Salzburg AG Utilities UAE
Styria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Calder is a Front End Lead with 11 years of professional experience building user-focused web applications across utilities, transport, and higher education sectors. Currently leading front-end efforts at Salzburg AG Utilities in Austria, he blends hands-on development with team leadership to deliver scalable, maintainable interfaces. His background spans senior roles at Parkside and Bike Citizens and a decade-plus of web and new media work at the University of Bristol, giving him strong product and accessibility instincts. Ben is comfortable across the full stack and known for turning legacy codebases into modern, component-driven front ends. Based in Styria but originally from South Yorkshire, he brings international perspective and a track record of steady progression from developer to lead. Colleagues appreciate his pragmatic approach to balancing user needs, performance, and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at University of the West of England
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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9answers
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svelte
top-5%
Github Skills (122)
testing10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
angular-testing-library10
testing-library10
cypress10
svelte-testing-library10
p5js10
component-testing10
javascript9
js9
html9
svelte9
maps8
firefox8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blindfish3/bufi
Mar 2016 - Jun 2020
simple scripted UI controls
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
ui-control
blindfish3/p5-playground
Jun 2015 - Jun 2020
Experiments with p5js
Contributions:76 commits, 50 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 1 month
p5js
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