Ben Clinkinbeard
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Fort Thomas, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolBen Clinkinbeard is a Senior Systems Software Engineer with 16+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance web and visualization systems, currently focused on systems software at NVIDIA. He blends product-minded engineering with systems thinking—rapidly iterating client-side architectures, geospatial visualization, and data pipelines for mission-driven teams including X (the moonshot factory) and Palo Alto Networks. A prolific front-end specialist, he pushes browser limits using technologies like TypeScript, Web Workers, Apache Arrow and deck.gl, and created the D3 training site d3in5days.com. Ben has a strong track record in tooling and optimization—evidenced by enhancements to grunt-browserify that improved build performance—and frequently bridges research, product and user feedback to deliver practical outcomes. Comfortable working remotely since 2008, he pairs excellent written and verbal communication with a penchant for learning new stacks such as Go, gRPC and Kubernetes.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Design Digital Design, Bachelor of Science in Design Digital Design at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (16)
browserify10
g10
javascript10
nodejs10
front-end-development10
react10
build-automation10
gruntjs10
testing10
jestjs9
actionscript6
emberjs6
npm6
ant6
apache-flex6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
idyll-lang/idyll
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Create explorable explanations and interactive essays.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:289 commits, 66 PRs, 112 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `idyll-lang/idyll` project, which focuses on creating explorable explanations and interactive essays. The commits demonstrate efforts to improve the testing infrastructure, including switching to Jest for testing and verifying file contents. Additionally, the user made modifications to the code, including changes to component resolution and the inclusion of example data.
live-editingexplanationsessaysinteractive-storytellingidyll-project
jmreidy/grunt-browserify
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Grunt task for node-browserify
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben contributed significantly to the `grunt-browserify` repository, enhancing its functionality. They implemented support for the `browserify-shim` and `aliasMappings` options, which expanded the library's capabilities for managing dependencies and aliases. Additionally, the user added support for the `noParse` option, improving build performance by skipping the parsing of specified files. These changes demonstrate a focus on feature enhancement and optimization.
gruntjavascriptnodejsbrowserifygrunt-task
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