Ben Crosse
Principal Software Engineer at SmartBear
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Crosse is a Principal Software Engineer based in the UK with 6+ years building and modernizing large-scale JavaScript applications across client and server stacks. At SmartBear he has driven architectural decisions, restructured a 120k+ line codebase, and led development of a VS Code extension and global API management tooling. He is a hands-on leader and mentor who champions Test-Driven Development and automation while rapidly prototyping new ideas. Comfortable across React, Node, Redux and test frameworks, he also brings full-stack and legacy-platform experience from SharePoint/.NET projects. His background in technical writing and training gives him a practical edge in producing clear documentation and onboarding engineers.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA History, Bachelor of Arts - BA History at University of Galway
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Github Skills (49)
markdown10
javascript10
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apidoc10
css10
open-source10
swagger10
asyncapi10
oas10
api-documentation10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
html10
gatsbyjs10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SmartBear/vscode-swaggerhub-release
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
SwaggerHub for VS Code - Providing SwaggerHub Integration inside the Visual Studio Code IDE.
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
ideswaggerhubvisual-studio-codevscodeswagger
ben-smartbear/swagger-ui
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
apicompliantjavascriptcsshtml-javascript
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