Ben Cheng
Senior Software Engineer at Spritely
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Cheng is a Senior Software Engineer based in Christchurch, New Zealand, with six years of professional experience building modern web and cross-platform mobile applications. He specializes in PHP and Laravel on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend, with strong skills in responsive UI, SQL databases (MySQL/MariaDB), Docker, AWS, and CI/CD using GitHub Actions. At Spritely he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, delivering production-ready RESTful services, automated testing, and a cross-platform app while working in agile, cross-functional teams. Ben pairs a practical focus on clean, maintainable code with an eye for user experience, and has experience integrating React Native into full-stack projects. His academic background includes a Master of Computer Science from the University of Auckland and a long-term foundation in software and database engineering, reflecting both research-led training and hands-on production delivery. Notably, he brings a blend of enterprise-grade backend engineering and frontend polish that helps bridge product and engineering priorities.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Information Technology, Master of Computer Science Information Technology at The University of AucklandBachelor's degree Information and Computing Science, Bachelor's degree Information and Computing Science at University of Science and Technology Beijing
Chinese, English
Github Skills (31)
admin10
laravel10
laravel-package10
laravel-admin10
voyager10
php9
flutter-apps8
file-sharing7
flutter7
dart7
adapter6
adaptation5
summernote4
react4
firebase4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ben-cheng565/Satisfaction-Analysis-of-Air-Passengers
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ben-cheng565/lemon-ecommerce-app
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
This full-stack JavaScript project implements a functional e-commerce application. The front end is based on the React, Redux and Bootstrap technologies, the back end uses the Node.js, Express and MongoDB service. It also utilizes the PayPal api as a payment method.
Contributions:49 PRs, 160 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
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