Ben Cole
Senior Front End Engineer at Twitch
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Cole is a Senior Front End Engineer based in Irvine, CA with 12 years of professional experience and a career rooted in full‑stack development since the mid‑2000s. He specializes in accessibility, front-end rendering performance, and the subtle mechanics of user interaction—CSS animations, debouncing, and perceptual feedback—focused on smoothing the often-overlooked rough edges of UI. At Twitch he’s held progressive roles from front-end engineer to engineering manager and back to senior individual contributor, combining hands-on delivery with mentorship and team growth. He also taught a full‑stack coding bootcamp and has extensive freelance experience building end-to-end web products for small businesses. Pragmatic about metrics and user-centered success criteria, Ben helps engineers translate user needs into measurable, maintainable interfaces. A detail-driven practitioner, he’s as likely to optimize server caching or database queries as he is to perfect an animation timing for better perceived performance.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,877reputation
145kreached
22answers
5questions
wordpress
top-1%
Github Skills (95)
css-in-js10
styled-components10
javascript10
wordpress10
typescript10
oneapi10
preact10
react-native10
css10
tasks10
react10
laravel9
permalinks9
drag9
parser9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bcole808/wp-social-metrics-tracker
Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
A Wordpress plugin to view and analyze the social performance of your site
Contributions:18 releases, 56 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
wordpress-plugin
bcole808/link-click-analytics
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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