Ben Farrell
Information Technology Security Engineer
Lumby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Farrell is an Information Technology Security Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building defensive programs, incident visibility, and rapid remediation processes across financial and education sectors. He combines deep diagnostic instincts—from hardware repair and data recovery to SCCM/VMware administration—with practical security tooling expertise such as Defender ATP threat hunting and KnowBe4 platform management. At organizations including Coast Capital Savings and Kwantlen Polytechnic University he led phishing/spam controls, user awareness initiatives, and security policy implementation, and now applies that blend of operational rigor to Raymond James’ security posture. A longtime small-business owner and contributor to front-end open-source work (including fixes to Adobe’s Spectrum Web Components), he brings an engineer’s curiosity and a track record of shipping small but impactful improvements. Ben’s background in both customer-facing support and enterprise security gives him a rare ability to translate technical controls into user-friendly processes that reduce risk.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology and Business Management, 4.10 GPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology and Business Management, 4.10 GPA at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
English
Github Skills (4)
html10
javascript10
web-components10
css8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/spectrum-web-components
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Spectrum Web Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing and debugging Spectrum Web Components. Their contributions included fixing a bug related to integer values in the Radio Button Group component and updating associated tests. Additionally, the user implemented the download attribute for the sp-link component, adding a new feature and adapting test cases. They also addressed minor issues and made improvements to the number-field component.
adobespectrumwebcomponentsweb-components
bengfarrell/geolf
Oct 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:55 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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