Ben Eggett
Development Partner & Technology Consultant at Like to Build
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBen Eggett is a seasoned development partner and technology consultant with 14+ years building and scaling web and mobile products, having delivered over 175 client projects and led engineering teams through multiple successful acquisitions. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails backend expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like the Spree eCommerce platform—with executive experience as CTO/VP driving high-availability systems that served millions and handled hundreds of thousands of requests per minute. A polyglot (fluent in Japanese, Spanish, English and proficient in Portuguese), Ben also designs curriculum and teaches web development, blending product-minded engineering with rapid prototyping and operational strategy. He has a track record launching viral mobile products and affiliate networks, and is active in the local developer community as the organizer of Salt Lake City’s Ruby users group.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in Finance, Finance, Marketing, IS, Bachelor of Arts in Finance, Finance, Marketing, IS at University of Utah - David Eccles School of BusinessThe University of Utah
English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ecommerce10
rails10
ruby10
api10
spree10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
spreed10
database-migrations9
database-migration9
front-end-development8
html6
jruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree
May 2012 - Mar 2015
Open Source eCommerce Platform for B2B, Marketplace, and Enterprise. REST API, TypeScript SDK, and production-ready Next.js storefront. Self-host it. Own your stack. No vendor lock-in. Zero platform fees.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Spree e-commerce platform. Their work involved correcting and adding missing translations, namespacing admin controllers, and fixing an issue with the API key functionality. The user also addressed a missing `</div>` tag in the frontend, indicating involvement in both backend and frontend modifications. They made additional contributions by reverting a migration name change and adding a check within a migration.
ecommercenextjsrestrest-apitypescript
beneggett/super-awesome-gosu-game
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 16 pushes in 3 years 10 months
railsrubyruby-tutorial
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