Ben Chester
Software Engineer at Freelance
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Chester is a London-based software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused web and mobile products across startups and agencies. He has led technical teams and product development—from senior iOS roles delivering polished, animation-rich apps to technical director and tech lead positions shaping product strategy and execution. Ben combines deep front-end and mobile expertise (Objective-C/Swift, UIKit, CoreAnimation) with backend and systems experience from earlier C# work on high-stakes financial engines. At London Techworks he helped embed user research into rapid innovation programmes, and later steered product design and engineering for ventures like fitforwork.ai and PitchSpace. He’s equally comfortable shipping consumer-facing apps and architecting robust, fail-safe systems, and brings an Oxford MPhys background that underpins a methodical, data-informed approach. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who anticipates business needs and moves quickly from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at University of OxfordWyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I CollegeLongslade Community College
Github Skills (60)
animation9
javascript-client9
gesture9
animated9
sdk9
urql9
ctypes9
exchange9
graphql8
react8
react-native-component8
apollo8
javascript8
raven8
caching8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benmechen/distr-server
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Distr API and Server
Contributions:21 PRs, 25 pushes, 22 branches in 5 months
apinodejsserver
benmechen/Portfolio
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Personal developer website
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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