Ben Clayton
Technical Director at Calvium
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Clayton is a Technical Director and co-founder with 14 years' experience bridging research and product engineering to deliver desktop, web, and mobile applications. He leads technical strategy at Calvium while remaining a hands-on developer across JavaScript, Node, HTML5, native iOS and Android, and C++/C# back-ends. His background in pervasive computing at HP Labs produced published research and practical toolkits for location- and sensor-driven media, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigour and production experience. Ben is also an active open-source contributor—improving Android unzip performance and progress reporting in the popular react-native-zip-archive library—demonstrating attention to performance and user feedback. Comfortable with both GUI and media toolchains (Photoshop, 3ds Max, Flash) he often sits at the intersection of technical architecture and creative product design. Trained with a First Class Masters in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep systems and mobile expertise.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class Masters, Computer Science, 1st Class Masters, Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, French
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Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mockingbot/react-native-zip-archive
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Zip archive utility for react-native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the `react-native-zip-archive` library's Android functionality. They implemented support for extracting zip files from the Android Assets folder and incorporated progress events during the unzipping process, allowing for more user-friendly feedback. Further improvements included rewriting the Android unzip method to run on a background thread, improving performance, and fixing a bug related to directory creation.
reactreact-nativezip-archiveunzipandroid
calvium/react-native-fs
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
react-nativereactfilesystem
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