Ben Crook
Technical Lead at Space 48
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Crook is a Technical Lead with 11 years' experience specializing in front-end eCommerce engineering, primarily on Magento, Shopware, and BigCommerce. He leads projects end-to-end—from discovery through go-live and ongoing enhancements—combining hands-on React/TypeScript development with mentorship, code review, and client-facing delivery. Front-end certified across Magento and Shopware, Ben pairs strong UI architecture and tooling (Webpack, Sass, task runners) with commercial awareness and a focus on SEO and performance. Noted as one of the top Magento contributors in the UK, he brings a practical blend of design sensibility and backend familiarity (PHP, databases, VMs) to solve complex commerce problems. Colleagues know him for taking ownership, being reliably curious, and helping shape team culture and discovery processes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Westhoughton High School
Stackoverflow
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70kreached
12answers
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Github Skills (80)
adobe10
magento10
ecommerce10
php10
sass-lint9
react9
csslint9
affiliates9
payment8
gulp8
coverage8
sass8
dart-sass8
merge8
hot-reload7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BenSpace48/Hologram-Test
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
BenSpace48/devdocs
Jan 2016 - Sep 2019
Magento Developer Documentation
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
magento2developer-documentationdeveloper-toolsmagento
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