Ben Coomes
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBen Coomes is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building pragmatic, elegant solutions and driving team success across both product and platform roles. After rising through engineering and architect roles at Softdocs, he joined GitHub where he progressed to Senior Software Engineer, applying a blend of hands-on coding and systems thinking to complex problems. Based in Columbia, South Carolina, he brings strong full-stack instincts informed by a Computer Science degree from Clemson and internships across healthcare and web development. Known for valuing elegant, maintainable designs, he pairs attention to detail with a collaborative mindset that helps teams deliver reliably. An engineer who prefers solving the hard, not the flashy, he steadily advances systems and processes that scale beyond individual features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Clemson University
English, German
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Github Skills (44)
strava-api10
acl10
qbcore-framework10
authorization10
stepper10
rbac9
entitlements9
security9
garmin9
strava9
database9
abac9
fine-grained-authorization9
gpx9
zanzibar9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benCoomes/textt
Jan 2024 - Mar 2026
A web-based toll for text transformations
Contributions:11 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
benCoomes/equipper
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Auto-pick bikes for Strava activities
Contributions:1 review, 257 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 4 months
bikesqbcore-frameworkstravapickgarmin
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