Ben Davis
Senior Software Engineer at O'Reilly Media
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Davis is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack web applications for Fortune 50 companies and public institutions, now contributing at O'Reilly Media from Dallas. He co-founded and led Bold Idea, designing a scalable LMS-like platform and automation that let a small staff manage thousands of student and volunteer interactions while capturing real-time impact data. Ben blends hands-on engineering—from Django backends and REST APIs to Polymer-based UI components—to deliver robust, maintainable systems used in production (e.g., Shell, ExxonMobil, 7-Eleven). He’s skilled at translating complex business needs into data-driven solutions, having architected high-performance reward and asset-management systems processing hundreds of millions of records. As an educator and mentor he creates approachable K–12 CS curricula and trains volunteers, demonstrating a rare mix of product, technical, and community leadership.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Information Systems at Baylor University
English
Stackoverflow
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62answers
68questions
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polymer
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
css10
nltk10
polymer10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
user-interface9
python9
django9
interface-design9
linux9
bash9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
bendavis78/paper-date-picker
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Material design date picker component for polymer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:136 commits, 48 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the polymer framework for a material design date picker. Their commits focused on implementing the user interface elements and refining their visual presentation. The changes involved modifying HTML templates, CSS styles, and JavaScript code to achieve the desired design and functionality. They appear to have added, removed and altered specific HTML and Javascript files and CSS styling to alter its appearance.
material-design
bendavis78/django-template-email
Jul 2011 - Jul 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years
djangodjango-templatesemailpython
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