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.
16 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 (111)
icon-pack10
dashboard10
postgresql10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
svg-files10
country-flags10
data-visualization10
observability10
mysql10
figma10
analytics10
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kapowaz/kap-legends
Sep 2024 - Oct 2025
KAP Legend System doubleshot keycap legends and designer resources
Contributions:112 PRs, 147 pushes, 129 branches in 1 year 1 month
designerkeyboardkeycaps
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
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