Ben Crowl
Principal Engineer at Givenwell
New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorBen Crowl is a Principal Engineer based in New Zealand with over two decades of experience building user-focused software across education, retail, wholesale, finance and project management domains. He blends hands-on expertise in TypeScript, .NET/C#, AWS and UI design with strong SQL Server schema and query optimisation skills to deliver measurable business value. Ben has progressed from developer roles into engineering leadership—most recently at Givenwell and previously as Head of Engineering at Education Perfect—where he pairs technical stewardship with team delivery. He thrives on solving root causes of technical debt and improving developer practices, as reflected in his time at CodeLingo and tech-lead roles at HungryHungry. Comfortable moving between product engineering and architectural thinking, he brings pragmatic design sense that prioritises end-user delight and scalable systems. Though his GitHub presence is understated, his long tenure across varied domains suggests a depth of institutional knowledge and an ability to rapidly ground new teams in solid engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (99)
wysiwyg10
time-travel10
javascript10
editor10
visual-studio-extension10
vuex10
rich-text10
electron10
typescript10
vue10
visual-studio-code10
contenteditable10
microsoft10
strongly-typed10
lexical10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mrcrowl/vscode-easy-less
Jan 2016 - May 2021
Easy LESS extension for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:17 releases, 7 reviews, 15 commits in 5 years 4 months
visual-studio-code
mrcrowl/vuex-typex
Jun 2017 - Apr 2021
Typescript builder for strongly-typed access to Vuex Store modules
Contributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 8 commits in 3 years 10 months
strongly-typedtypescriptvuex
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