Ben Downey
Founder & Product Owner at CME Tracker
Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Downey is a full-stack engineer and founder with over a decade of commercial experience who builds practical SaaS products that simplify operations and fundraising for small organizations. He founded Big Nest to centralize donations, events, and communications for parent-teacher groups—helping local groups raise $300k+ and launching a program to provide free websites across Spokane. Ben also maintains and evolved CME Tracker from prototype to production and runs BuildingBlockLabs, delivering custom web apps and rapid prototypes across stacks including Rails, Django, React, Angular, Vue, Firebase, and PostgreSQL. Comfortable as an independent contributor or embedded team member, he has a track record of turning manual, paper-driven processes into automated systems that save time and scale. His liberal arts background informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to product design and developer collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts Philosophy, Liberal Arts Philosophy at Gonzaga UniversityLiberal Arts Philosophy, Liberal Arts Philosophy at Northern Illinois University
English, Italian
Github Skills (34)
seo9
ios-application9
social-media9
json-ld8
jekyll8
iphone8
objective-c7
swift7
dotenv6
react5
intercom5
python5
ios5
search-engine5
aggregator4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RagtagOpen/cta-scraper
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 38 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 months
RagtagOpen/cta-aggregator
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
For aggregating CTAs
Contributions:41 commits, 81 PRs, 89 pushes in 8 months
python
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