Ben Delarre
Principal Scientist - Emerging Products at Adobe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Delarre is a Principal Scientist and seasoned web-focused generalist with 13+ years of engineering experience, currently shaping emerging products at Adobe in San Francisco. He blends deep front-end expertise with systems and build tooling know-how—work that has touched high-profile projects from Adobe’s Spectrum Web Components to contributions in tween.js, Comlink and OpenSeadragon. His background spans embedded and flight systems (SpaceX Crew Displays) through large-scale web architectures for Photoshop on the web, giving him a rare fluency across hardware, low-level C++/microcontroller work and modern JavaScript stacks. A prolific problem-solver, he improves robustness and developer experience (rollup/webpack/karma fixes, Node compatibility and animation features) and writes tests to validate change. Outside of work he channels curiosity into electronics, CNC/3D printing and large-scale interactive art for events like Burning Man, reflecting a practical maker mindset that informs his engineering.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, BSc Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at University of SussexArt and Technology Modern and Traditional Art Multimedia and the use of Biology and Technology in Art, Art and Technology Modern and Traditional Art Multimedia and the use of Biology and Technology in Art at Gothenburg University of Fine Art and Chalmers University of TechnologyMSc Art and Technology, MSc Art and Technology at Chalmers University of Technology
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Github Skills (33)
unit-testing10
lit-element10
javascript10
event-handling10
theming10
animation10
testing10
css10
image-viewer10
test-runner10
typescript10
dev-server10
web-components10
webpack10
rollupjs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/spectrum-web-components
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Spectrum Web Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 112 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the styling and theming of web components within the Adobe Spectrum ecosystem. Their work included defining CSS variables for button components and implementing dark and light themes. Furthermore, they added icon support to buttons and refactored the build process using Gulp, improving efficiency. They also focused on incorporating custom elements with LitElement.
adobespectrumwebcomponentsweb-components
modernweb-dev/web
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Guides, tools and libraries for modern web development.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the testing and debugging of the web development tools. They fixed bugs related to the dev-server and test-runner, specifically addressing issues with outside-root paths in rollup plugins and coverage configurations. They also created browser contexts per test page in the test-runner-playwright, and improved the test suite. These contributions involved JavaScript and focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the web development tooling.
saucelabsjavascriptdev-serverbrowserstacktest-runner
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