Ben Caplan
Senior Software Engineer at RideTandem
Hale, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Caplan is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building production web and mobile systems across media and consumer startups, currently driving engineering at RideTandem. He combines a strong academic foundation in mathematics and advanced computer science with hands-on expertise in Node.js/Express, React Native, iOS development, and Heroku-based deployments. Recently self-directed into machine learning, Ben has focused on Python, scikit-learn and neural networks, bringing data-driven thinking to product development and model prototyping. Comfortable moving between backend services and mobile clients, he excels at turning complex requirements into reliable, shipped features and is motivated to transition more of his career into ML-infused products. An analytical thinker who pairs MMath and an M.Sc. with practical engineering, he’s equally at home optimizing pipelines as iterating on user-facing apps.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MMath, Mathematics and Statistics, MMath, Mathematics and Statistics at University of NottinghamMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Advanced Computer Science, First, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Advanced Computer Science, First at University of Leicester
Github Skills (32)
staging10
javascript10
seo10
wordpress10
metadata10
plugin10
php10
yoast10
date-fns10
datepicker10
xml-sitemap10
opengraph10
react10
version-control8
database8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ben-caplan/velocity-truncate-html
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
stringdotcmstruncatewordsmacro
ben-caplan/velocity-translation-macro
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
translationvelocitymacrosdotcms
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