Ben Darlow
Staff Product Design Engineer at Grafana Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Darlow is a Staff Product Design Engineer based in London with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20-year career focus on design systems and front-end tooling. He has modernised component libraries and shipped product-facing features across companies from Deliveroo and OakNorth to JPMorgan Chase and now Grafana Labs, blending engineering rigor with design sensibility. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, he moves between design and code—often acting as the bridge that turns design language into resilient, reusable UI systems. His background running a technology consultancy and director role demonstrates entrepreneurial grit and an eye for practical, maintainable architecture. Notably, he cultivates both product impact and developer experience, favouring tools and patterns that scale across large organisations.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Finham Park SchoolDip. HE Computer Science, Dip. HE Computer Science at University of Brighton
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Github Skills (142)
fill10
heroku-deployment10
redux-store10
javascript-api10
morph10
svgr10
layout10
circle10
conventions10
emotion10
typography10
eslint-plugin10
slugify9
react-rails9
svg-files9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kapowaz/compass-excess
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
Some basic compass additions to help with responsive website development
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
responsive-websitecssjavascriptadditionscompass
kapowaz/square-flags
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
A collection of 400+ minimalist square SVG country, state and language flags
Contributions:10 releases, 59 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 1 month
country-flagsdesignfigmaflagsicon-pack
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